The pager beeps insistently. The phone rings at 2 am And Rev. Sally Eaton knows before
she answers that she has" handed over" another soul. Eaton, a 59-year-old Anglican priest …

Abstract Dr. Balfour Mount of Montreal thinks that the health care system, because of its
fixation on disease processes, may have forgotten that it also has a mandate to alleviate …

T he Ontario Medical Association (OMA) position statement on palliative care (see pages
933 to 934) will give an impetus to Ontario palliative care services and advance palliative …

The patient knew she was going to die soon, perhaps in a few days, but her pain was well
controlled and she was spending the warm afternoon in the garden, enjoying one of the last …

Professor Waldman suggested inviting me to address this topic in part because of my
background in palliative care, hospice, and clinical ethics at the University of San Diego, but …

We live in increasingly polarized times, in which science, professional expertise,
pragmatism, common sense, and even human empathy are more and more becoming the …

In recent years there has been increasing atten-tion paid to various issues related to the
care of patients who are dying. These issues include the types of care required, the ethical …

FREDERICK I. BURGE, MD, CCFP ntil recently, physicians and medicine have neglected
the dying. Evidence for this lies in the previously ignored hospital and home cancer patients …

Social historians will surely record how the general public enthusiastically accepted and
helped to develop and influence hospice care. While the public undoubtedly appreciated the …

Early in 1970, just as we were organizing The Hastings Center, we had to decide which
issues on a long menu of possibilities should receive our early attention. At the top of our list …