Healing and Medicine

                                      Feb 2019 Talking about death and dying is like a taboo in medicine, so I do feel apprehensive when I take this on. However, I am more and more compelled to speak up as time goes on. As a physician I have come to embrace my role in taking care of the living and dying. While we spend so much time talking about living, not many if any talk about the process of dying. Yes, I am not joking here. This is serious and I do this with the most compassion in my heart. I want us all to take a moment today and think about how would we want to be treated when we are in the process of dying or transitioning or however you would want to think of this phase of our lives. I realize everyday that our mind is a powerful God given super power, so I humbling request to not take my words as a narrow-minded and cold perception of life. Perhaps think of this as an exercise where while you could think of your obituary (which is a commonly used motivational techniq