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Say her name: Dr. Susan Moore Op ed about the life and death of Dr. Susan Moore, a black family physician who died of COVID in December, after recording a post relating her racist treatment while a patient. Topics: Death&Dying / Empathy&SympathyKeywords: COVID / death / dying
PPE-clad doctor comforts lonely elderly covid 19 patient The doctor's new role: family member, hug, hand...heartbreaking photo shows PPE-clad doctor comforting lonely, elderly covid-19 patient Topics: Death&Dying / Empathy&Sympathy / GriefKeywords: COVID / death / dying
Reentry This is a NEJM perspective piece written by a palliative care doctor in NYC in light of the COVID pandemic. A snippet: "From March to June 2020, I led a palliative care team embedded in our hospital’s Covid ICU. We spoke to countless families over the phone and by Zoom calls to tell them their loved ones were critically ill, getting sicker, and eventually, dying. When the prognosis seemed dire, we recommended transitioning to comfort-focused care. And in patients’ final hours and days, we held iPads at their bedsides so that family members around the world could say goodbye." Topics: Death&Dying / Empathy&Sympathy / GriefKeywords: COVID / death / dying
As they rush to save lives, health care workers are updating their own wills and funeral plans The coronavirus crisis has forced those at the front lines of treatment to confront their own mortality. This article highlights a former Navy ER physician. Topics: Death&DyingKeywords: death / dying / mortality
‘I Couldn’t Do Anything’: The Virus and an E.R. Doctor’s Suicide Dr. Breen was unflappable - until she faced a new enemy. Topics: Death&DyingKeywords: death / dying
Leave Fat Kids Alone The “war on childhood obesity” has only caused shame. Topics: Obesity/Weight
The Fix (40min) Radiolab podcast: This episode we take a sober look at the throbbing, aching, craving desire states that return people (again and again) to the object of their addiction … and the pills that just might set them free. Topics: Addiction / Guilt & Shame
A Doctor's Love Affair with Vicodin (25min) “Medicine is a land of opportunity for a drug addict.” Take Dr. Peter Grinspoon’s word for it. The Harvard-trained physician spent years abusing painkillers, infatuated with the feeling of euphoria that he got from the drugs. This is the story of his addiction and recovery. Topics: Addiction / Impaired Physician