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Press Room News / dying

“Dying Well” or scare tactics?

By Nancy Valko via Youtube I discovered that former San Francisco Chronicle reporter Katy Butler is now publishing yet another book on dying well (her first book “Knocking on Heaven’s Door” was a best seller) when I read her lead essay in the February 8, 2019 Wall...

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Pain and “Choice”

By Nancy Valko It was 1969 and I was fresh out of nursing school when I was assigned to a patient I will call "Jenny" who was thirty two years old and imminently dying of cancer. She was curled up in her bed, sobbing in pain and even moaned “just kill me.” The small...

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“Good” News about Dying in America?

By Nancy Valko January’s Medscape, a subscription news service for medical professionals, published the article “Good News about Dying in America” by Dr. George Lundberg. Dr. Lundberg is the former editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and...

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