by KathyKastner | Jun 21, 2018 | Blog, Medical Decisions
‘If you don’t give her antibiotics, she’ll go toxic and die.” Although my 96 year old aunt (pictured at left, between me and my cousin – her daughter) had no symptoms of a bladder infection, a urine test resulting from cloudy pee revealed she indeed had a...
by KathyKastner | Jul 27, 2018 | Blog, Kathy Kastner
Dr Daphna Grossman wants to set the record straight “In healthcare it seems we talk about ‘doing everything’ or ‘doing nothing’. With Palliative care ‘nothing’ is not an option. Certainly there are standards and recommendations and then there’s the Art of Treatment:...
by KathyKastner | Apr 30, 2015 | Blog, Featured, Medical Decisions
Dr Rebecca Sudore: changing focus from planning end of life to preparing for end of life decisions An Associate Professor In-Residence in the Division of Geriatrics at University of San Francisco, the impossibly young Dr Sudore is dedicated to helping vulnerable older...
by KathyKastner | Feb 16, 2015
Modern Medicine can keep you alive Machines, medications and man-made parts: modern medicine continues to find and develop life-saving and life-prolonging interventions. Advancements in heart research include: Bypass surgery Man-made implantable cardiac devices like...
by KathyKastner | Jan 27, 2015
You can change your mind. And change it again. End of life choices and end of life decisions are often complex and ‘subject to change without notice’ Options and choices can change as life changes. Often decisions need thinking, learning more and then...
