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In my most recent article, I shared how my patient died by suicide. It is rare that palliative care patients take their lives, but the impact on their families and healthcare providers is significant. I will always remember her.

Excited to be teaching in-person at #ISPEC with GWish and like minded comrades Anne Vandenhoeck Christina Puchalski Rick Bauer @GalchuttPaul Marvin Delgado-Guay Betty Ferrell Trace Haythorn Tracy Balboni MD, MPH, FAAHPM

My partner in crime!

So many great takeaways from ##ISPEC, not least the 2nd edition of this must-read book (which will sit next to the 1st edition on my bookshelf). GWish Anne Vandenhoeck @GalchuttPaul Betty Ferrell Christina Puchalski Marvin Delgado-Guay Rick Bauer Trace Haythorn Tracy Balboni MD, MPH, FAAHPM

We've become used to students rating us like they rate private hire drivers, but recently I was reminded why I teach. A medical student who attended one of my classes asked her mother who is being treated for cancer, to ask her oncologist to refer her to palliative care.

Summary : for older renal patients, it can be the right thing to "let it be".

The Care That Saved Me | New England Journal of Medicine nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Dragon dance to open #APMEC2025 in line with the coming Lunar New Year

What a treat to have Christina Puchalski GWish visit Singapore for the Asian Pacific Med Edu Conference, so I could show her around my 'hood (well actually Gardens By the Bay, all decked out for Lunar New Year).

Spirituality in Daily Life - In this clip from the archives His Holiness the Dalai Lama explains how spirituality, like medicine, is most effective during life's challenges recorded at the Entertainment Center in Sydney, Australia on May 26, 2002.

The first of 2 articles I was asked to write for the medical school's 120th anniversary. This is a "look back" perspective inspired by my father. medicine.nus.edu.sg/newsletters/is…

youtu.be/-r1e1QPSYhA The Fall of Singapore, 1942. Never forget. Never again.

The overwhelming burden of serious health-related suffering (SHS) in the world is placed on LMICs. 🔴Our latest paper in The The Lancet Global Health provides new SHS estimates that delve into how this burden developed from 1990 to 2021.📊 thelancet.com/journals/langl… Billy Rosa, PhD, MBE, APRN Héctor Arreola-Ornelas

Follow a spiritual care counsellor as she works with Hospice home care patients GWish Rick Bauer @GalchuttPaul mewatch.sg/watch/Before-Y…

And so we kick off the 2nd run of the Lien Collaborative for Palliative Care in Sarawak. Another group of healthcare professionals from various facilities across this beautiful country, have come together to discover what Palliative care is, and can do.

Time has just flown by! Module 1 of the 2nd run of Lien Collaborative for Sarawak draws to a close. The faculty and mentors now have to start preparing for next module in August! Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network

In the run-up to the Asia Pacific Hospice Conference in Kuching in April, a few of us were asked to write an article to raise public awareness of Palliative Care. Here's my contribution: theborneopost.com/2025/03/30/pre…

Here's a Chinese version of my article on the importance of Palliative care education for all, written in the run up to the Asia Pacific Hospice Conference in Kuching in April: sarawak.sinchew.com.my/news/20250330/…

In July, our hospital's Health Education Hub will focus on cancer care and future care planning. I will be speaking on why we should talk about what matters to us.