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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

To delve into these questions, we spoke with Hope Wechkin, medical director of EvergreenHealth home hospice, who authored an article describing a process of Minimal Comfort Feeding (MCF) for patients who have expressed an interest in not wanting to live with advanced dementia. Eric 01:13 Yeah, you got to jump in. Take it over.

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The Three R's of Nursing

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

In Victorian times, nurses were often seen as "loose women" and "opium users" with poor morals, gallivanting with doctors when they should have been home in the kitchen baking cookies, feeding babies, and ministering to their husbands' needs. From 2012 until its sunset in 2017, Keith co-hosted RNFMRadio, a groundbreaking nursing podcast.

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