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How much dying and death is bearable?
How much dying and death is bearable? By Nadine Lexa Nadine Lexa discusses the growing burden on staff and volunteers in palliative care despite seemingly ideal working conditions. People working in p
Nadine Lexa5 minJuly 2017 - Vorwort3|17
Foreword
Foreword Dear readers, Christian Redmann introduces this issue with a reflection on pharmaceutical patient care as one of the core competencies of local pharmacists. In ordinary pharmacy practice this
Christian Redmann2 minJuly 2017 - Kolumne3|17
Forget reason, long live feeling
Forget reason, long live feeling By Juliane Uhl In this column, Juliane Uhl reflects critically on a media world that constantly appeals to emotion. Television and public communication bring vivid ima
Juliane Uhl3 minJuly 2017 - Philosophie3|17
Philosophical aspects of the medical conversation
Philosophical aspects of the medical conversation By Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Thomas Bohrer Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Thomas Bohrer reflects on the medical conversation as the constitutive feature of the doctor-
Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Thomas Bohrer7 minJuly 2017 - Thema3|17
Final Twilight of the Gods
Final Twilight of the Gods By Manuel Stark Manuel Stark tells the story of Elisabeth and Roland Friedrich, a couple who spent a lifetime together and married only at the very end. The piece opens at E
Manuel Stark7 minJuly 2017 - Feedback3|17
Reader opinions
Reader opinions This section collects reader feedback. Martina Kranzeder thanks the Palliativ-Portal for a valuable, inspiring and informative magazine that helps her as a palliative care nurse expand
Palliativ-Portal Redaktion3 minJuly 2017 - Farb- und Materialgestaltung3|17
Living and dying spaces
Living and dying spaces By Eva Höschl Eva Höschl examines how colour, material and spatial design can support people in palliative care. The article begins with her personal experience of accompanying
Eva Höschl9 minJuly 2017 - Rezension3|17
Levels of Life
Levels of Life By Thomas Achenbach Thomas Achenbach reviews Julian Barnes’s Levels of Life , describing it as perhaps the best book ever written about grief. It is not a textbook or advice manual, but
Thomas Achenbach4 minJuly 2017 - Kommunikation3|17
Idiolectics and methodical immoralism
Idiolectics and methodical immoralism By Dr. Hans Hermann Ehrat Dr. Hans Hermann Ehrat introduces “methodical immoralism” through Eugen Drewermann’s image of psychotherapy and pastoral care as a form
Dr. med. Hans Hermann Ehrat3 minJuly 2017 - COLUMBA informiert3|17
COLUMBA informs: Here for you
COLUMBA informs: Here for you This section thanks readers for the many topic suggestions sent by email and Facebook. The editorial team presents several reader ideas, including the experience of young
Palliativ-Portal Redaktion1 minJuly 2017 - Spenden3|17
COLUMBA informs: donations
COLUMBA informs: donations This page presents two donation-related projects. The first is the cookbook project Pudding ist Seelsorge , created from the observation that widowers and men who never lear
Palliativ-Portal Redaktion3 minJuly 2017 - Rezension3|17
Burnout and burnout prevention in palliative care
Burnout and burnout prevention in palliative care This review presents Nadine Lexa’s book on burnout and burnout prevention in palliative care. It explains that palliative and hospice work has lost it
Palliativ-Portal Redaktion2 minJuly 2017 - Apotheke3|17
Built on (shipping) sand
Built on (shipping) sand By Christian Redmann Christian Redmann argues that fast and uncomplicated access to urgently needed medication is a cornerstone of pharmaceutical care. In Germany this depends
Christian Redmann9 minJuly 2017 - Vorwort2|17
Foreword
Foreword Dear readers, Welcome to another issue of COLUMBA. This time, the editorial team again asks which topics may be helpful without presenting the sensitive field of dying, death and grief in a s
Dr. Jörg Cuno2 minApril 2017 - Kolumne2|17
Drops that fall into nothingness
Drops that fall into nothingness By Juliane Uhl Juliane Uhl writes from a monastery where she has withdrawn for a few days to think about the meaning of life and the noise of the world. The enclosed m
Juliane Uhl5 minApril 2017
