Justin Sanders
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106 appearances
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1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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absolutely.
Well, I think there's a couple radical ideas.
The first is the idea of total pain, this concept that Cicely Saunders articulated, which sort of...
is at the heart of how we understand suffering in this field and also how we respond to it.
And the second is an idea that Michael and Balfour Mount were really, I think, instrumental in articulating, which is this idea that healing is possible through the course of serious illness.
And if medicine sees dying as a series of failures, I think the idea that something is possible there, that people can experience a sense of integrity or growth
as they approach the end of their life on and on up until the end and beyond is really radical.
series?
Absolutely.
I would encourage everybody to put into their browser McGill Palliative Care National Grand Rounds.
This is a series of 10 lectures per year that we've just started with Michael as the first speaker for the Balfour Mount lecture, which just happened January 21st.
And we have 10 lectures per year for the next seven years, at least.
So we encourage people to come to register and come listen.
We have over 1,200 people already registered for the talk, and about 600 people attended Michael's talk in January.
So, you know, it's funny, if I can interject, one of the things I often say to people who aren't familiar with our work in the hospital, including the administrators, as I'll often say that our unit is the one place in the hospital where people consistently experience joy.
And so I love hearing what you're saying about how it was a place of laughter.
And I think that that's true.
Like part of our work is giving people the opportunity to experience something besides sorrow and to really experience joy.
Yeah.
oh i was gonna say so yeah january 21st 1975 was the opening of the unit and i would just plug this book this is uh this is a book called 10 000 crossroads uh this is balfour mount's memoir and
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