Category Archives: Emergency/Crisis Medical

If we can’t laugh

Posted on August 16, 2012 by dgermann

If we can’t laugh, what sanity is there? :- Doug.

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Conversing with doctors

Posted on August 5, 2012 by dgermann

In conversations with Doctors I have found they are at a big loss, maybe bigger than the rest of us, about how to get this end of life conversation spreading. :- Doug.

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Quick, get me to a TV show! Since the TV patients who get CPR survive 67% of the time, and those in the hospital only 6.5 to 15%, and the ones on TV recover fully, then if I need CPR, … Continue reading →

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Invite conversations of life and.

Posted on June 27, 2012 by dgermann

I invite conversations of life and. :- Doug.

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How much caring is there?

Posted on June 6, 2012 by dgermann

There are tragedies out there in health care. In a world that says it is about care, how much caring is there? :- Doug.

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A memory box

Posted on June 4, 2012 by dgermann

A memory box can be a way to start the conversation: here are some pictures, some ribbons, some pressed flowers; here are some documents; here is what I want…. :- Doug.

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“They know what I want.”

Posted on May 28, 2012 by dgermann

You cannot know what you want until you meet it in conversation. Here you discover and form. “They know what I want” can be avoidance of the questions. :- Doug.

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Vending machine picture of law

Posted on May 14, 2012 by dgermann

Many times we have a vending machine picture of law: put in a coin, out comes a certain result, predictably. Time by time we find we are in a flowing stream with 10,000 variables floating past, each can touch us, … Continue reading →

Do we want to let them?

Posted on April 25, 2012 by dgermann

Out of fear some people do not want to have the conversation about care of Mother or Father at end of life. What is the antidote to fear? Love. How can love step in? Firmly? Some other way? What would … Continue reading →

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A message from your children

Posted on April 12, 2012 by dgermann

I have a message for you. From your children. But they’re afraid to bring it up, are even repulsed by the very idea. It falls to you then to do something about it. Because this is how we love one … Continue reading →

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Even in our last days

Posted on April 6, 2012 by dgermann

There are many parts to the human. Let’s take for instance head, hand and heart. All tire at different rates. The longer our view, the more that is possible to us. The more we see, the more we see. Our … Continue reading →

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If doctors

Posted on April 6, 2012 by dgermann

If doctors have no desire for conversation, then we can take on having the conversation for them. :- Doug.

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Taking Responsibility for Death

Posted on March 31, 2012 by dgermann

Friends– “Is there anything you can do here to give me back the life I had last year, when I wasn’t in pain every minute?” Here is an excellent article in the New York Times about an 89 year old … Continue reading →

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We cannot cure death

Posted on March 24, 2012 by dgermann

We cannot cure death Yet we act as though we could Or as if we wished we could Yet if we see death not as end But as a chapter We might write it well Live it artfully :- Doug.

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Imagine conversing with your family….

Posted on March 23, 2012 by dgermann

Imagine conversing with your family about the things brought up in considering your final chapter. Think of the specific people you’d want to talk with. Who would be easiest to talk with? Where would you be? How would you start? … Continue reading →

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Beyond death as failure?

Posted on March 22, 2012 by dgermann

How could we, today, here, work to change our cultural view from death as failure, to something wiser and more human? :- Doug.

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Hear Doug on good medical decisions

Posted on March 21, 2012 by dgermann

Friends– On Tuesday I had the pleasure of being on Dale Carter’s Blog Talk Radio show to converse about “How to Help Your Aging Parent with Crisis Medical Decisions.” The program was recorded, and you can listen to it here: … Continue reading →

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