Cathedrals…and Hospitals

I love cathedrals. As a college (and scholarship) student at Brown University I had the opportunity to sing in multiple English cathedrals on a summer tour that our chorus did. I devoured several books on the different types of cathedral architecture and can still try to think in those terms (transept, lady chapel, nave etc.)…

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A Matter of Life and Death

Recently I attended a medical conference that explored the agency, role, and responsibilities of the physician “at the end of life”. Doctors from different parts of the country came to the meeting but those who practice in states with “Physician-Assisted Death” statutes had singular stories to tell. My own focus as a family doctor, who…

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Attending

I have attended deathPraying first to have the Spirit flow Through me with the truest words toComfort those left behind And I have dissected death, both from withoutSuddenly without those I loved andFrom within, seeing the anatomy of the bodyProbing my own invisible mind And Grasping for the place where the soul and The breath…

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