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First Opinion

Opinion: Hospice care needs saving

14.12.2022

Hospice in America is gravely ill. An extensive investigation jointly published by The New Yorker and ProPublica documented outright fraud, predatory practices, and flagrant mistreatment by specific publicly traded and …

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In the label ‘adult failure to thrive,’ medicine reveals its own failures

12.07.2022

The death certificate made everything worse. Seth Fischer was already angry: a physical feeling, an overwhelming internal buzz. He would go for runs, only to find himself passing the white …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Mainstream medicine must embrace palliative care services

30.06.2022

Even before the onset of Covid-19, there were legions of people with serious illnesses in America. Yet medical students and resident physicians get only a few hours of education on …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion

Opinion: Listen: The faces of Covid at 1 million deaths and counting

18.05.2022

When Covid-19 began tearing across the U.S. in March 2020, Alex Goldstein started posting on Twitter the pictures and stories of people who had died from the disease. He was …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion

Opinion: One million reasons to reimagine end-of-life care

16.05.2022

The magnitude of loss from Covid-19 — 1 million-plus deaths, many millions more grieving loved ones who have died, the country’s social fabric in tatters — is incomprehensible. Life expectancy …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Listen: Covid turned the nation’s eyes to nursing homes. Have we already looked away?

20.04.2022

When the Covid-19 pandemic began tearing across the country, it hit nursing homes hard. More than 200,000 residents and staff members at long-term care facilities have died from the disease. …

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First Opinion

Opinion: We all need help working through grief and hardship

24.01.2022

What do you say at work when you’re not really OK? More to the point, how do you know you’re not OK when you’ve practiced showing everyone just how OK …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Listen: A physician and philosopher on the dangers of ‘curating’ natural deaths and executions

27.10.2021

Americans have a tendency to fixate on what’s commonly thought of of as “a good death” — surrounded by loved ones, a peaceful, quiet passing that looks like falling asleep. …

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First Opinion

Opinion: What the death rattle and capital punishment have in common

21.10.2021

Death rattle. That’s the sound some dying people make, caused by a buildup of mucus and other secretions in the throat as the body begins to slowly lose its life …

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