Physician-assisted death for terminally ill children in that age group has been allowed in the country since 2024.
When I was a school social worker, a teary-eyed father once came to the school to tell his 4-year-old daughter’s teacher that ...
When Jane Oh and Ben Yan’s 6-month-old son Alexander unexpectedly died in 2017, time seemed to stop. Grief paralyzed the Vancouver couple. Oh could barely get out of bed for the first two years and ...
I have often said that working with patients who are dying has brought an ironic, but transient, feeling of exhilaration to my life. Most care providers who work in hospice will explain to us that ...
At least 10 Santa Clara County social workers, including supervisors and managers, have been placed on administrative leave by the county’s child welfare agency in the wake of a toddler’s death in ...