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BMJ Support Palliat Care
October 2024
Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, St Louis, Missouri, USA.
Background: Often, family members and friends gather around a dying hospice patient to say goodbye in what is known as a death vigil. The purpose of this study is to explore the stories and experiences of family caregivers of hospice patients who participated in death vigils.
Methods: Qualitative analysis of interviews with 50 hospice family caregivers explored the experiences and memories affiliated with death vigils.
J Dent Res
June 2024
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Harold (Hal) C. Slavkin, DDS, the 22nd president of the American Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research (1993 to 1994), died on December 22, 2023. During a career that spanned almost 6 decades, Hal distinguished himself as an international authority on craniofacial biology and an advocate for oral health equity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn March 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic had exploded in New York City, across the country, and around the world. At its height, thousands of people were dying every day in quarantined intensive care units and Covid wards, their families forbidden from attending their loved ones' last living moments, even to say good-bye. The victims were dying in isolation, consigned to make-shift morgues, and buried or cremated-without ceremony, without grieving loved ones present.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Investig Med
December 2022
Center for Neurogastroenterology and GI Motility Gastroenterology/Hepatology and Nutrition, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, El Paso, Texas, USA
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