Standing on the platform : stories and reflections from palliative care / Frank Brennan.

Kogarah, N.S.W. : Calgary Health Care, [2011?]

95 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm + 1 CD.

Accompanying CD contains MP3 files.

Previously published in: Living ethics, 2007 (Standing on the platform: the role of palliative care) ; Annals of internal medicine, 2006 (The woman from County Meath) ; Annals of internal medicine, 2007 (Words) ; American journal of hospice and palliative medicine, 2006 (Silence) ; Griffith review, 2007 (Parents ; Home visits ; Disclosure ; The bells of Kwazakele ; The last patient ; An Australian life) ; Journal of palliative care, 2008 (Those who knew the ways of water) ; Journal of medical ethics, 2004 (As vast as the world) -- Journal of medical ethics, 2008 (The year of magical thinking)

Includes bibliographical references.

Standing on the platform: the role of palliative care -- Stories from palliative care: The woman from County Meath - Words - Silence - Parents - Home visits - Pieta - Country - Disclosure - The bells of Kwazakele - The last patient - An Australian life - Sons - I am - The mind - The road to Maubara -- "Those who knew the ways of water": Bruce Dawe and the nature of palliative care -- "As vast as the world": reflections on A very easy death by Simone de Beauvoir -- The year of magical thinking: Joan Didion and the dialectic of grief.