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Disparities in End of Life Care and the Barriers that Facilitate Them
By Randi Kahn. As many of you may have read, Evelyn Lauder, the senior corporate vice president of Estee Lauder Companies and daughter-in-law of founder Estee Lauder, a champion of breast cancer...
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Unrelieved Pain in Terminal Ill Patients – An End of Life Tragedy
By Glenna Crooks. Soldiers returned from modern-era wars addicted to medicines used to treat the pain of their wounds. Society has been fearful of the power legitimate medicines can have on the unwary...
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How I Live, How I Die
By Diana J. Mason, PhD, RN, FAAN. The “death panel” rhetoric that arose during the debates about health care reform is an example of what’s wrong with the conversations about health policy in this...
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Things we are grateful for this year
By Alexandra Drane. For four years running now, many of us bloggers have participated in what we’ve called a “blog rally” to promote Engage With Grace – a movement aimed at making sure all of us...
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November Man of the Month: Dr. Peter Ditto
By Hope Ditto For me, November’s Man of the Month needs no introduction (… because he is my father). For the rest of you for whom he is not a genetic relation, here goes… The Disruptive Women in Health...
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Engage With Grace
By Regina Holliday. I don’t know about you, but I love those promotional items I pick up at conferences. I think it is really cool that my five-year old has a Health 2.0 water bottle and that my 13...
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Disaster Preparedness: Lessons for an Aging America
By Janice Lynch Schuster. Public health officials are sounding the alarm over the looming catastrophe of an aging America, a time in which 78 million Boomers will arrive at old age, only to find a...
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Why Do We Fear Death?
By Ufuoma Lamikanra. Why do many people fear death? I believe that it is a fear of the unknown. If you do not know what will happen to you at the end of life, it is a normal feeling to be afraid. This...
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Palliative Care a Humanitarian Need
The following is a guest post by Ms. Nasreen Sulaiman a Senior Instructor at Aga Khan University School of Nursing. She has worked with palliative patients. By Nasreen Sulaiman. Palliative care is an...
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Requiem and Renewal
The following is a post by Annekathryn Goodman, MD who is an Assistant Director, Vincent Gynecologic Oncology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Associate Professor, Department of...
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Disruptive Women’s Latest ebook is Here
By Robin Strongin. Last November several of the Disruptive Women bloggers and outside experts contributed to our end of life series; as a result of this we are happy to be able to present our latest...
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November 2012 Man of the Month: Bill Novelli, a man who “engages with grace”
Every year around November and the Thanksgiving holiday season, Disruptive Women in Health Care offers posts that remind us to take time to pause and think, not only about the delicious things we are...
View ArticleGoodbye to Jumpy: Lessons for the health system
For 15 years, I have made a living writing about death and dying, and about aging and caregiving. My experience stems from having cared for my grandmother in the early 1990s, and I was motivated by my...
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Hallmark: Please create hospice cards
Do you keep all the cards you receive? I do. When I have spare time I even paste them into scrapbooks in all their lovely glory. Behind each sentiment or floral cover, I cherish the words written by...
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A perspective on true dignity: A response to Vermont Patient Choice and...
Physician aid-in-dying, aka physician assisted suicide, has been debated in many articles over the past 10 years. It is often enlightening to read the online comments that frequently follow such...
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Lean Into the Sorrow
Last fall I was reading Sheryl Sandberg’s book “Lean In” on a plane. I looked around my aisle at seats filled with business travelers and the majority of them were men. As I read Sheryl’s thoughts on...
View ArticleFilming in the ER: A Patient Perspective
Editorial note: This post is the first of a two part series, the second will run tomorrow. Several years ago, chest pains woke me from a sound sleep at 2 AM. I knew it might be a heart attack. I...
View ArticleGet Out While We Can: Aid in Dying and Diane Rehm
In 1994, my family promised my grandmother, just diagnosed with metastatic cancer, that we would help her—and prevent her suffering—till the end. We promised she would die at home, and that she would...
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Hospice Reflections
Jane Lincoln and I are Facebook friends. We met (on Facebook) through a mutual friend and colleague when the two of them worked together at AARP. Jane’s career has involved helping and caring for those...
View ArticleTBT: We Are All Survivors, If Only for a While
Exactly one year ago we ran the post below; its sentiment still rings true. Today’s TBT post covers two very important and timely topics, breast cancer (October is National Breast Cancer Awareness...
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