Personal reflections on a patient’s passing

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Personal reflections on a patient’s passing

By Greg Judkins
alcohol pouring drinks CR Stanislav Ivanitskiy on Unsplash
Ian’s focus was on socialising and he brushed bad habits and their health impacts aside [Image: Stanislav Ivanitskiy on Unsplash]

Greg Judkins shares one of his own poems to relate his experience of the death of a longterm patient, and the issues that raised for him

Are we overly concerned with how long one lives, rather than how well life is lived? The police phoned me at home one weekend. Could I complete a