Come one, come all! There's a new carnival in town!
    You're forgiven for not noticing; that's how new it is. I stumbled across it because, much to my surprise, a post of mine was featured in the premier edition and one of my readers, the next host for the carnival, in fact, Dethmama of Dethmama Chronicles, clued me in about the presence of one of my posts. The carnival is called Palliative Care Grand Rounds. The aforetyped link will lead you to its newly established home page. This link will take you to its premier edition hosted by Christian Sinclair, MD, at Pallimed.
    It's a good one, especially for those interested in, well, here, let me quote the opening paragraph to Volume 1 Issue 1:

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Palliative Care Grand Rounds, a monthly blog carnival bringing you the best and most interesting blog posts about hospice, palliative care, death and dying, grief, quality of life, communication in the medical arena, and anything else that strikes the fancy of the host that month.

    You tell me: Who doesn't that include? This month's edition is divided into four sections according to the type of blogger posting the articles. I'm continuing to work my way through the posts. It's full of curious and thought provoking information. Some tidbits: A post about how often and under what circumstances patients remember the names of doctors attending them in hospitals; what it's like to receive messages from the dead; at the moment I'm listening to a song about euthanasia.
    I recently asked Dethmama if she was planning a theme. She says, "I'm not going to have a theme for the carnival... PCGR is so new that I don't want to discourage anyone from contributing by limiting the topic. So like Christian says anything to do with death, dying grieving, caregiving, palliative/hospice, etc." The field's wide open, folks...spots available for any ride you want to offer. Keep in mind that the first edition of the carnival was constructed by hand by Dr. Sinclair, who trolled the web looking for appropriate posts. Dethmama is expecting to have to do much the same. Wouldn't it be great if she had so many submissions for the second edition that she didn't have to go looking?
    Later.
- posted by Gail Rae @ 14:15   email  this post