Debriefing: How we process our experiences with patients
In a case like Susie’s, nurses wonder if there was a way to change not the outcome, but the way she died.
Diagnosis & Disease Information
Backstory: What I didn’t know
For the author, the life stories of patients are more like mysteries than anything. Sometimes the story she thought she knew turns out to be wrong.
Preparing family members to care for the patient at home
Outpatient treatment shortens hospital stays and shifts responsibility for patient care onto family members with no medical training.
Hope Street: Dum spiro spero
How do you foster hope in cancer patients, especially when they are terminally ill? For the author, the first step is open communication.
Dancing Cancer
The author describes the children’s book she wrote to make it easier to talk to children about cancer.
The question behind the question: What is the patient really asking?
The author describes how she learned to stop and listen and clarify when a patient asks a difficult question.
Goldilocks and a lightweight jacket: Cancer care and metaphor
The author uses metaphors when communication is a challenge, an approach that can help the patient make sense of a new situation.
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