From nurses to surgeons to chaplains, readers challenge how — and by whom — the hardest conversations in medicine should happen.

Around 75 volunteers help with TMC's hospice programming, helping with anything from cleaning and stocking linens to sitting bedside--sometimes bringing a piece of themselves along.

I’d like to tell you about the last time I wept. It was for my grandmother, a mother to me in many ways, who taught me ...

In-home euthanasia services have always been an important component of veterinary hospice and palliative care, offering dogs and cats a peaceful death in a familiar environment. Less frequently ...

The couple is Catholic, and church teachings call euthanasia “a crime against human life.” Catholics are not permitted to be ...

Jennifer Shapiro, Unit Manager at Madison Health and Rehab Center, has been named to the Frontline Honors Awards Class of ...

On the corner of Northeast Knott Street and 33rd Avenue stands a neighborhood stalwart. It’s called Family Medical Group NE. The other day, Dave, who lives a few blocks away, stood under his blooming ...

This year’s Joplin Interfaith Coalition bake sale will benefit Solace House of the Ozarks. The coalition will hold its annual ...

The legacy of John Perkins can be seen and heard at St. Edmond Catholic School on every school day as 800 students from pre-kindergarten through high school file into classrooms each morning for ...

These final words, heard by medical professionals in real hospitals and care centers, are stories they’ll never forget.

Knowing that life is coming to an end must be one of the most heartbreaking feelings. Death is something most of us don’t ...

Peripheral T-cell lymphoma, not otherwise specified (PTCL-NOS), is a rare subtype of non-Hodgkin lymphoma that frequently presents with multiorgan involvement. We report a diagnostically challenging ...