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At end of life, Baylor team fights the current, sometimes loses Primary Author: Lee Hancock, Dallas Morning News Part of a Dallas Morning News series on efforts to improve end-of-life medical care, this article covers efforts to ease suffering at the end-of-life at the Baylor University Medical Center. Included is a video in which Dr. Robert Fine and nurse Min Patel of the palliative care team discuss how to bring healing to patients and families at the end of life. Date Last Modified 12/18/2008 Article, Video

Baylor team helps families understand death, face it together Primary Author: Lee Hancock, Dallas Morning News Part of a Dallas Morning News series on efforts to improve end-of-life medical care, this article describes a Baylor University Medical Center palliative care team's efforts to help patients and families face the end of life. Included is a video chronicling the story of one of their patients and her family. Date Last Modified 12/18/2008 Article, Video

Patient Perspectives on Spirituality and the Patient-Physican Relationship Primary Author: Randy S. Herbert, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Article from the Journal of General Internal Medicine describing an in-depth study of 22 patients hospitalized with a life-threatening illness. The authors found that all participants stressed the importance of physician empathy, but physician-initiated conversation without a strong patient-physician relationship was viewed as inappropriate. Date Last Modified 10/16/2001 Article

Finding Meaning in Medicine Primary Author: Karin Evans, Author Article from the Fall/Winter 2006-07 issue of GreaterGood Magazine, describing several programs from throughout the country intended to reconnect physicians with the human dimension of their work. Date Last Modified Article

What Makes for a Compassionate Patient-Caregiver Relationship? Primary Author: Darshak M. Sanghavi, University of Massachusetts Medical School Article from the May 2006 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety (Volume 32 Number 5) describing an initiative sponsored by the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center that involved questionnaires and discussions at 54 hospitals on this topic. This article describes the results of these discussions. Date Last Modified 05/01/2006 Article