The future of palliative care

By Tony Back

In many respects, we've arrived. Yet what we know now won't get us to the next level. So I'm looking for signals from the future, & I'm curating them here.

Previous issues

The future of palliative care - Issue #31

#31 Jun 3, 2019

The future of palliative care - Issue #30

#30 Apr 7, 2019

The future of palliative care - Issue #29

#29 Mar 4, 2019

#28

Jan 21, 2019

The future of palliative care - Issue #28 – "You’ve got to surround yourself with people you can be in the struggle with for 50 years." [Vincent
#27

Nov 20, 2018

The future of palliative care - Issue #27 – "[Because of all the hostility]...I prefer to be in the dark." Jamie McDaniel, interviewed by Hidden
#26

Nov 12, 2018

The future of palliative care - Issue #26 – "Maybe I'm trying to whitewash history." Pete Souza
#25

Oct 28, 2018

The future of palliative care - Issue #25 – "Love is not a victory march. It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah." Leonard Cohen
#24

Oct 15, 2018

The future of palliative care - Issue #24 – "You cannot understand a system until you try to change it." Kurt Lewin
#23

Oct 7, 2018

The future of palliative care - Issue #23 – "Being mad can be joyful and productive and connective." Rebecca Traister
#22

Sep 30, 2018

The future of palliative care - Issue #22 – "Empathy is radical in this kind of environment." Jane Fonda
#21

Sep 24, 2018

The future of palliative care - Issue #21 – "To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day." Lao-Tzu
#20

Sep 4, 2018

The future of palliative care - Issue #20 – "We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them
#19

Aug 5, 2018

The future of palliative care - Summer reading! – “You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.” [John Waters]
#18

Jul 23, 2018

The future of palliative care - Issue #18 – "Either we have hope within us or we do not. It is a dimension of the soul and is not essentially dep
#17

Jul 15, 2018

The future of palliative care - Issue #17 – "If you want to change how a person thinks, give up. You cannot change how another person thinks. Giv
#16

Jul 2, 2018

The future of palliative care - Issue #16 – "Networks in nature show how...the pattern of links at the local scale sets the options for stability
#15

Jun 24, 2018

The future of palliative care - Issue #15 – “We cannot solve our problems with the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Ei
#14

Jun 10, 2018

The future of palliative care - Issue #14 – “The illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot
#13

May 28, 2018

The future of palliative care - Issue #13 – "Are you willing to use whatever power and influence you have to create islands of sanity?" Meg Wheat
#12

May 21, 2018

The future of palliative care - Issue #12 – "Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death." [Jean Cocte

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