med wordsMedical Terminology

Every health condition comes with its own language, medical terminology and decision options. End of Life is no different.  While CPR and DNR may be familiar to many, that doesn’t mean they are understood as intended.

New ‘terms’ such as Allow Natural Death or AND and Voluntary Stopping Eating and Drinking or VSED have been created to add to options to consider.   Understanding the words and terms used is one thing. Being able to act on them is another.

Myths about aging, proud octogenerians

Jack Pinkus in action at Baycrest Jack Pinkus, retired pharmacist with 17 years on the Board on the Ontario Pharmacists Association opened his educational session at Baycrest by exploding the following myths: • Age will inevitably bring illness • Damage is already...

5 Steps to a Patient Centered Hospital

Which came first: hospitals or patients? Although filled to the brim with patients, hospitals were created to support doctors, not us patients. Historically, their organizational structure focused on doctors’ needs and doctors’ requirements. The concept of centering...

Create your own Advance Directives Care Plan

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Alexander the Great