Category Archives: Emergency/Crisis Medical

reel runs faster

Posted on January 15, 2016 by dgermann

The reel runs faster as it runs out Changes come in large sizes With great speed, and often: Into my accumulating years I am hurtling :- Doug.

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Going well?

Posted on January 3, 2016 by dgermann

What’s going well? :- Doug.

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I get to openly love

Posted on October 6, 2015 by dgermann

Elder caring is the only field of law where I get to openly love my clients. :- Doug.

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Our family knows

Posted on August 12, 2015 by dgermann

Our family knows more than they think they know about the direction of our health. :- Doug.

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Where’s the poetry?

Posted on July 29, 2015 by dgermann

Where’s the poetry in this? :- Doug.

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You maybe want to talk

Posted on July 23, 2015 by dgermann

You maybe want to talk about people who have died, or deaths you have witnessed, or medical care, or vivere dum mori (live while you are dying). :- Doug.

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always larger

Posted on July 23, 2015 by dgermann

There is a larger way of looking at this. :- Doug.

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If you are very ill

Posted on July 15, 2015 by dgermann

If you are very ill, how important is having a good day to you? What does having a good day mean? :- Doug.

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keep the hospital committee away

Posted on May 24, 2015 by dgermann

The second most important thing you can do to keep the hospital committee away is do a Power of Attorney. :- Doug.

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Only certain evidence

Posted on April 26, 2015 by dgermann

Evidence-based means only a certain kind of evidence is accepted. :- Doug.

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elective?

Posted on April 23, 2015 by dgermann

What of this care is elective? :- Doug.

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Don’t burden your family

Posted on March 31, 2015 by dgermann

Don’t burden your family…with decisions about your health care. :- Doug.

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trajectory of your disease

Posted on March 31, 2015 by dgermann

Which trajectory do you see for your disease? Up, down, a bump in the road? Draw it, please. :- Doug.

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What does a longer life look like?

Posted on March 31, 2015 by dgermann

What does a longer life look like? After this? :- Doug.

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Focus on living

Posted on March 29, 2015 by dgermann

Focus on living, not on limits, pain, dying, what you have lost or are losing. :- Doug.

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“I’m going to beat this”

Posted on March 29, 2015 by dgermann

“I’m going to beat this”—could mean living meaningfully till then. This may no longer mean hope for your body but there can always be hope for life. :- Doug.

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Why do we from the hospital

Posted on March 26, 2015 by dgermann

Why do we from the hospital Seek home? It is the place of life Where we are known And live What does this say about How we hospital? :- Doug.

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