Palliative care is a unique sector of medicine that treats patients with terminal diseases. Palliative care physicians have conversations with families to identify patient wishes, particularly when they are facing death. These physicians are equipped with training that emphasizes empathy, comfort and patient autonomy. Freedom of choice during the dying process gives patients the power to reclaim their agency amidst a process rife with uncertainty.
LIFE
Central Michigan Life staff reporter Nelson Bronya, who is from Ghana, shares his experiences at Central Michigan University and Mount Pleasant as an international students, the kindness of people he met and diversity he felt a part of.
Journalism, in all of its facets and capacities, has no single definition. The rules the average journalists follow, though, do not seem to vary much. One of the most important rules for journalists to follow: Stay out of the story. But sometimes rules are meant to be broken, just ask Barbara F. Luebke. Coming from…
By Andy FurmanNKyTribune reporterIt was a story made for the big screen. As a matter of fact, not only was the audience at Covington’s Radisson Hotel in awe – there weren’t too many dry ey
Eight members of the Streator Fire Department and EMS were honored Wednesday for saving the life of a Streator resident in a Jan. 1 fire.
Four days before the biggest game of their lives, dozens of 6- and 7-year-olds wearing full pads and kelly green jerseys bounded onto a practice field in suburban Atlanta.
Netherlands-based freelance illustrator Michelle Wagenaar taps into social media-induced angst to create bright, playful posters that acknowledge the sad sides of life. But far from being all doom…
Christian Boltanski’s explorations of emotion wrought by the Holocaust and the horrors of war profoundly resonate today more than ever.
Decades after being considered a 1985 box office bomb, “Fandango” is now known as a cult classic. Behind it all is the story of a brief encounter among Hollywood, Baylor Greek Life, Steven Spielberg, the son of a university president and the rolling expanse of Texas.
By Sydney Fairbanks Jambar Contributor Many students work with media outside of classes, either through Youngstown State University organizations or…