For those of you who are still non-believers in the power of a healing environment, I just received this note from one of our most outstanding physician healers. Of course this is NOT quantifiable science. It is not about shots, or antibiotics, or standard medicine. It is about human touch, comfort, respect and love. So, all of you who don’t believe it yet, take a moment and read this.

“I see the same, sad and unfortunate situations every time that I admit a patient from many other hospitals into our hospice. They come in facing impending death, and get discharged to their home or a nursing home two weeks later, eating, sometimes ambulating, most importantly COMMUNICATING, and often on no medications. In fact, I am discharging one man today who was SCREAMED at by his PCP because the patient wanted NO MORE aggressive measures done.

His PCP was obviously threatened by this, and the poor man was dismissed from the physician’s service on the spot, and Hospice came to the rescue. The man had respiratory failure, was on at least 10 different medications, and was dying. His daughter said no when the doc suggested a feeding tube, (the man even had a living will), and, as I said, the doc promptly dismissed them all, right in front of the patient in the next bed and right in front of the nurses’ station.

So now, after a few days with us, I am sending him home on nothing but our own hospice blend of flower essences like angel’s trumpet to help to prepare him for the transition into the spiritual world. He is talking, blowing us kisses, and eating pudding. I LOVE MY JOB!”