All stories have an end, and at the end, all we have are stories. But for many at the end of life, these stories never leave the palliative care unit. That is where blind professional storyteller...
News of a poor prognosis is never easy to break—especially when there are young children involved. But how do we bring up the subject of a parents’ terminal illness to their kids? It is a topic...
Claire Creutzfeldt, MD, is a stroke neurologist at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, dedicated to the integration of palliative care in patients with severe acute brain injury and...
We honour the late Dr. Bernard Lapointe, former Chair of the McGill International Palliative Care Congress, former Director of Palliative Care McGill, and Order of Canada recipient, who has touched...
Jim Mulcahy’s path towards palliative care volunteer work was, as he describes it, “like going up the ladder where one step led to the next, but none of it was engineered by myself.” This path...
Ahead of her February 19, 2025 lecture entitled “My experience of accompaniment, death and bereavement: 29 years of psychological services at the heart of the MUHC team (1986-2015)”, part of...
