Hospice and euthanasia veterinarian Karen Randall, 58, talks about what she does and why she thinks it matters. Randall of Silver Spring, Maryland, has also volunteered with hospice at a children’s hospital. — Q: You are a vet. What made you decide to specialize in euthanasia? A: I’ve had two full-service clinics in my career […]
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People You Know: Fred Jordan, an ME on a mission
LEWISTON — Fred Jordan got his medical start as a teenage orderly at Central Maine General Hospital, asking doctors if he could peek in on operations and autopsies after-shift. He spent the bulk of his career — 32 years — as the chief medical examiner for Oklahoma. He was leading the office when Timothy McVeigh […]
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Clayton Weeks departs life as he lived it: Making friends
‘My life goal is to try to make a new friend every day.’ The first time I met Clayton E. Weeks, he had just finished shoveling the snow from one of the many storms Maine was hit with this year. He was shoveling so that his wife, June, 80, didn’t have to. The Weekses were […]
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Beyond the illness: ‘It’s really about helping them live life fully’
Little known, but cherished by patients and families, palliative care is growing in Maine.
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Redemption, untapped empathy through hospice program at Maine State Prison
WARREN (AP) — Steve Carpentier still sees the face in his dreams: Delirious and agitated, a dying inmate at the Maine State Prison cried out over and over that he was drowning. “I just grabbed my arms around him and called him by his first name. I said, ‘I gotcha. I’m not gonna let you […]
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Prison hospice program comforts the dying and changes the living
WARREN — Sergio Hairston thought he was prepared to watch someone die. The 25-year-old Lewiston man was at a bedside in the Maine State Prison’s hospice room watching a sick fellow inmate. “I always thought that I knew everything and could handle every situation,” said Hairston, an inmate since his conviction at 19 years of […]