Word: doctor
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Another explanation for her dedication is that she has trained as a nurse, a social worker and a doctor (she was nearly 39 when she qualified) and has learned the ways in which love and death are often inevitably linked. She has always had an extraordinary gift for establishing intimate contact with patients, drawing strength from them even as she gives it. She talks lovingly, almost as a mother, of long-gone patients -- Mrs. G., Louie, Ted -- who would listen to her problems and anxieties...
...words are now engraved below a window in St. Christopher's lobby. The other relationship, which her biographer, Shirley du Boulay, calls "unconsummated, unfulfilled, unresolved," was with a refugee in a home for the dying in east London, where she had gone to work as a newly trained doctor. Saunders is not one to reflect deeply on these obviously profound friendships, other than to say, with an almost dismissive formality, that they "helped me learn the possibility to stay and really look where I saw something of a welcome...
...nurturing begins the moment the ambulance arrives with a new patient. Madeleine Duffield, the matron (nursing director), is at the door with a warm bed covered with a colorful afghan. Questions like "Doctor, am I going to die?" are answered honestly. "Deception is not as creative as truth," says Saunders firmly. "We do best in life if we look at it with clear eyes, and I * think that applies to coming up to death as well...
...Christopher's revivify its new patients, physically, mentally and spiritually, that 15% of them are soon well enough to return home, even though they seemed only days from death when they arrived. At home they are looked after by the hospice's team of five visiting nurses and a doctor on 24-hour call. Even after a patient dies, St. Christopher's offers bereavement counseling to relatives...
...across the country, sometimes meeting resistance or apathy among older workers. Although defiant young miners overturned cars in Silesia and strikers in Gdansk chanted, "Come to us, come to us," a traditional labor call for support, the fervor that swept the nation in 1980 was missing. Said a young doctor in Gdansk: "People don't believe these strikes can change much -- in fact, they think they will mainly help make things worse. There will be no coal for winter, no this, no that...