At a recent seminar hosted by Stanford medical students, hospice physician Gary Pasternak discussed his work and the importance of listening and storytelling.
Cancer survivor Ali Zidel Meyers reflects on joining a cancer writing group and how it helped her and others through their experience.
When gravely ill undocumented immigrants wait to seek health care, they’re less likely to have end-of-life care that follows their wishes.
As Stanford physician Catherine Sonquist Forest, MD, went through her medical training, she hadn't considered the possibility that she would someday provide aid in dying to …
The Friday mid-afternoon session of Stanford Medicine X featured three stories, each meant to jolt attendees out of their everyday thoughts, to prompt them to …
Three years ago, I wrote a story on research showing that most physicians would choose a do-not-resuscitate or "no code" status for themselves if they were terminally …
Much of the story of Paul Kalanithi's death is known, chronicled beautifully in the memoir When Breath Becomes Air and in this Emmy-nominated Stanford Medicine …
Most of us have no desire to think, or talk, about death. However, if we never talk about it, we leave our health-care providers and …
In 2015, just as the California legislature was voting whether to allow physicians to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients, Stanford researchers launched an …
All patients with advanced cancer should receive palliative care soon after diagnosis, according to the American Society of Clinical Oncology, but only about half of …
