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The Wall Street Journal: Even healthy people worry about the quality of care they can expect to receive when they become ill. Will a cancerous tumor be spotted early enough? Will hospital staff move fast…

Mortal Matters blog (The Boston Globe): Last weekend a patient of ours at BIDMC died in one of our ICUs. She was young (early 60’s), with complications from major surgery, kidney failure, and multiple infections….

Feisty Side of Fifty/Baby Boomer Women: Although it’s difficult to contemplate, each of us needs to share what we want—otherwise there is likely to be a giant gap between our end-of-life preferences and how we…

Monday Mourning
Posted on 12/18/2012

Death Writer Blog: I loved Lovina’s no nonsense demeanor, her colorful use of language and her appreciation of art, words and cats. Without judgment, she allowed her children and grandchildren to be who they were,…

CNNMoney: You’ve gotten the phone call no one wants to receive: A close family member has been diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, or one battling a terminal condition has begun to fail. And so begins…

A Conversation with Ellen Goodman
Posted on 12/12/2012

Tara Mohr’s Blog: Well, she is one of the most widely read U.S. women columnists in the United States. She has the ability to sum up a whole movement, a whole era, or a complex…