Top 10 Children’s Movies for Palliative Care
From the Pallimed Arts & Humanities blog: 10. The Never Ending Story 9. My Neighbor Totoro 8. Bridge to Terabithia 7. Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium 6. Up 5. Lion King 4. My Girl 3. Bambi 2. Old Yeller 1. Charlotte’s Web They’ve also compiled the top 10 palliative care (adult) films and the top 10 palliative care songs. [...]
Social Worker in New PBS Series
Mary Ann Becklenberg, MSW, LCSW is a social worker who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at the age of 61. She eventually quit her job and became a leader and advocate for those living with the disease. There is a new PBS series called Life (Part 2) and Mary Ann Becklenberg is featured in this episode. Via Social [...]
Alicia’s Story
Alicia Parlette, a staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle, died yesterday. Alicia was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer at age 23 and died yesterday at the age of 28. She used her job at the Chronicle to write about her experience as a cancer patient. One of her last wishes was to turn [...]
Hopital TV Shows and Social Workers
Here are a list of a few recent medical TV shows: “Mercy” on NBC “Nurse Jackie” on Showtime “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Private Practice”on ABC “House” on Fox But where are the social workers? What’s perhaps even worse than non-representation, both “ER” and “Mercy” portrayed social workers negatively, according to socialworkersspeak.org, a site developed primarily for the purpose [...]
Controversial NY Times Article
A front-page article in the New York Times featured the story of Dr. Desiree Pardi, a palliative care doctor with breast cancer, who died on Sept 6, 2009. Here are links to theoriginal article published on April 4th and letters to the editor published on April 10th. Desiree’s husband, Rob Pardi, wrote to Pallimed Blog asserting that [...]
When Families Grieve Airs Tonight on PBS
When Families Grieve, the hour-long TV special features Katie Couric and the Sesame Street Muppets. Check your local listings for showtime information. Katie Couric was also featured on the television show Sunday Morning this week. On a related note, Christian Sinclair has compiled information about the 1983 episode of Sesame Street entitled, “Farewell, Mr. Hooper” which [...]
NY Times Columnist Writes About Her Loss
Jane Brody is a New York Times Personal Health columnist who frequently writes on end-of-life issues. Jane recently experienced the death of her husband on March 18th and has been publishing articles on her experience, including, The Pain of Losing a Spouse is Singular, printed yesterday in the New York Times. Though her new book, Jane Brody’s Guide to [...]
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