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DATE	TITLE/TOPIC
March 2008	"Denying the Obvious: How to Approach Patients Who Delay Medical Care for Advanced Breast Cancer"
February 2008	"What Is That Guy Thinking? When the Attending Is the Person Who Needs the Intervention."
December 2007	"When Death is Expected, Where Should it Happen"
November 2007	"A Patient/Family-Centered Palliative Care Approach to Decision-making in the Medical Intensive Care Unit"
September 2007	"Hospice and Palliative Care at 40"
August 2007	"Suicide Attempt in a Terminally Ill Patient"
July 2007	"Opiate Dosing for Respiratory Distress"
June 2007	"Where is God?"
May 2007	"What to Do When There's Nothing More to Do"
April 2007	"Music Therapy for a Terminally Ill ICU Patient"
March 2007	"Giving Prognostic Information"
January 2007	"I didn't know dementia was a fatal disease. Why didn't anybody tell me before?"
November 2006	"The Blessings of Palliative Care"
October 2006	"The Foundling"
September 2006	"The Power of Listening"
August 2006	"When a lot of small things make a big difference"
July 2006	"Request for a Hastened Death"
June 2006	"Dying at Home: Honoring the Patient or the Family?"
May 2006	"The Family Says Not to Tell"
April 2006	"'If That Was My Mother': The Danger of Quick Labeling"
March 2006	"Her Way or No Way"
November 2005	"When is Medical Care Futile?"
October 2005	"Music Therapy in Palliative Care"
September 2005	"The family that doesn't 'get it' "
April 2005	"When pain gets worse despite escalating narcotic doses"
March 2005	Talking to children about life limiting illness
November 2004	Common pitfalls in the assessment of medical decision-making capacity
May 2004	"End of Life" vs "Quality of Life"
April 2004	When there is a Doctor in the Family
March 2004	The Art of Being a Healing Presence
February 2004	Procedural Interventions in Palliative Care: The Case of Malignant Ascites
January 2004	Advanced Illness Coordinated Care
December 2003	Keeping Pace with Technology: Implantable Cardiac Devices in Palliative Care
November 2003	Behavioral Medicine in Palliative Care: An Adaptation of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
October 2003	What do you mean transfuse him? Aren't you from palliative care?
September 2003	Intensive Social Work Near the End of Life
August 2003	Music Therapy and Palliative Care
July 2003	The Institute to Enhance Palliative Care
June 2003	Interdisciplinary Pain Management in an Outpatient Setting
May 2003	Non-Compliance versus "chooses not to"
April 2003	"I itch so bad, I would rather be dead"
March 2003	Comfort Measures Only
February 2003	Sometimes Consent is Not Enough
January 2003	Mistakes at the System Level
November 2002	The Patient is Not Terminally Ill — May the Family Withdraw Life-Support?
October 2002	Recognizing Religious and Cultural Preferences
July 2002	Dont Just Do Something, Sit There!
May 2002	What do I say to my kids?
April 2002	Staff Coping with Terminal Illness
March 2002	Coordination of Care at the End of Life
January 2002	Antibiotic Use in the Dying Patient
December 2001	Writing a condolence letter
November 2001	How to provide intensive care at the end of life
October 2001	Finding a language, creating a space
September 2001	One man's journey toward deactivating his implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
August 2001	An isolated patient who wants to die at home
July 2001	A patient who is anxious and short of breath