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This is my blog where I write about caregiving, medical decision making, women’s health/wellness, shared medical decisions, end-of-life care, and palliative care.
Can We Find the Right Formula for Legal Physician-Assisted Death?
"Such a shame" people remarked about the deaths by suicide of Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade, others said the same about the repeal of the End of Life Option Act (EoLOA), the law that governs physician-aided suicide/death in California. Welcome to...
Giving Shingles the Short Shrift: New vaccine could make shingles just a bad memory.
There aren't too many non-lethal conditions more dreadful than shingles, also known as varicella zoster. Although shingles can be lethal too if the host is immunocompromised –– i.e. if they have a weakened immune system. I have terrible memories of...
A Month Without Alcohol
5 reasons to take a month off from alcohol. Just the motivation you need to participate in what's come to be known as Juiceless January.