Palliative Care

All the evidence that is related to palliative care these days demonstrates with absolute certainty people live better and they live longer. A seminal article out of the New England Journal of Medicine in 2010, a study done at Harvard, friends of mine, colleagues, in-stage lung cancer, one group with palliative care, a similar group without. The group with palliative care reported less pain, less depression. They needed fewer hospitalizations and ladies and gentlemen, they lived three to six months longer. If palliative care were a cancer drug, every cancer doctor on the planet would write a prescription for it. Why don't they This is a space that we will all come to at some point. But this conversation today is not about dying, it is about living. Living based on our values, what we find sacred, and how we want to write the chapters of our lives, whether it's the last or the last five.