We hear increasingly about the importance of tackling overtreatment, but less often about how overtreatment plays out in the lives of patients and their families. In the article below, Assoc... Read more
Voluntary euthanasia was again on the agenda this week, with the Senate narrowly defeating a bill that would have allowed the ACT and Northern Territory to legislate on the issue, something... Read more
** WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this post contains the image of a deceased person ** As Professor Peter Stanley, from the Australian Centre for the... Read more
Please download, read and share this report – #APCC2017_ConfReport – compiling articles by Marie McInerney from the recent Australian Palliative Care Conference (see the contents list below)... Read more
Aged care doctors may soon be making house calls in Australia via hologram – at least that was a suggestion at the recent Australian Palliative Care Conference in Adelaide. But for all... Read more
Julie Morgan is a former lecturer in ethical leadership and senior consultant on organisational development for Australian Catholic University. In February 2016 she was diagnosed with metast... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: A clinical prediction tool is being trialed in a Sydney hospital to give doctors and families the confidence to stop “heroic” interventions like cardiopul... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: A pillow shows the indent of a dying patient’s resting head, capturing the traces of life after it has left. More than 1,000 images of flowers bloom, wilt and d... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: Australian chef and food guru Maggie Beer is determined that food can and must be a pleasure to the very end of life – from the meals served in aged care homes and ho... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: Should “bad deaths”, where people suffer unnecessary pain and distress or needless and harmful medical interventions, be pursued in the courts as violations of human... Read more
