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Dr Peter Saunders discusses the Alfie Evans case with Alex Williams on Premier Christian Radio.
Broadcast by Premier Christian Radio on April 25 2018.
Dr Peter Saunders discusses assisted dying clinics with Jonathan Vernon-Smith on BBC Radio Three Counties.
Broadcast by BBC Radio Three Counties on March 21 2018.
case 1: demons or streptococcus? 'Is she possessed?' A twelve year old girl has come in because she 'can't stop moving' and her family is not sure what to do with her. It's been going on for a month. She's been prayed for at church, friends have suggested the witch doctor,...
Karen Murphy and Bob Wharton (eds) Jessica Kingsley, 2017, £18.99, 208pp, ISBN 9781785920684 Reviewed by Jeff Stephenson, Medical Director, St Luke's Hospice Plymouth In the evolving context of multiculturalism, secularisation, and outcome-driven healthcare, the role of hospice and palliative care chaplaincy faces enormous pressure, not least to justify its continuance as what...
Seamus O'Mahony Head of Zeus, 2016, £14.99, 292pp, ISBN 9781784974268 Reviewed by Claire Stark Toller, a Consultant in Palliative Medicine based in Southampton Written by a consultant physician, this erudite but readable book explores the philosophical, cultural and medical influences that mould our Western view of death. O'Mahony starts with a personal overview...
What is the first thought that comes into your head when someone says 'palliative care'? Sadness? death? Hospices? cancer? To me, when someone mentions palliative care I think of love, comfort and peace. Here's why. Palliative care is defined as 'active holistic care of patients with advanced progressive illness' [1]...
All your patients will end up in the mortuary. Your personal mortality rate will be 100%. Think about it for a moment. The young patient who has poor veins after years of intravenous drug use whom you 'save' by heroically cannulating at 3am, will die eventually; she may conquer her addiction...
There are times when I wonder what exactly I'm doing as a doctor. If we think the purpose of medicine is to defeat death, the failure rate is 100% – death comes to all of us. What should we understand by health, disease and illness? And what difference does loving...
A survey published by the Royal College of Nursing in early November (1) suggested that the large majority of nurses felt unable to give the right level of care consistently to dying patients. This frustration was laid at the door of poor staffing levels, inadequate resources and lack of training....
