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[Not] The angel of death!
This is one of two stories I’ll tell you about a hospice I used to visit as a priest. I used to visit the hospice every couple of days or so. The staff new I was a registered nurse, as well as a local Catholic priest. Some days I’d go in early in…
Hoc est corpus … hic est sanguinis
Similar to Damian’s story, Cosmo was a patient on the same ward, in and out with every new opportunistic infection or tumour his HIV could lay its grubby hands on. In the end he developed severe Kaposi’s sarcoma, with the classic bodily marks, from the tip of his nose, then dotted all over his body,…
Compassion in nursing care – we’re nothing without it!
Over the past few years, nurses and midwives in the UK have been reminded of the “6 Cs” of nursing care. I first heard my friend Joanne Bosanquet (MBE, Queen’s Nurse, Deputy Chief Nurse, Public Health England) promote the model. On the one hand, it’s great – especially for those new to the profession, to…
Trilogy of a beautiful Princess
From Diana to Harry:
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