Jessica Bloom is a family physician.

From doctor to family: Witnessing both sides of end-of-life care

Physician
March 27, 2024

We all have those moments in medicine when we know that care has become more futile. Then we do everything in our power to educate, support, gently guide, and give permission to patients and families. There are moments that treating for a cure goes against our tenet to “first do no harm.”

I never would have imagined that I would be on the family side of these debates. I had a …

Read more…

From doctor to family: Witnessing both sides of end-of-life care

Crossing the liminal space of the pandemic

Physician
October 21, 2021

We have been walking down a long hallway for many, many months. We left the room we resided in pre-COVID, but we have not yet found a room to rest. We are in the liminal space of COVID. This is unsettling and unnerving — liminal space often is.

Liminal space in architecture is the area between discrete, functional spaces, a way of passage, but not the place where beds are placed, …

Read more…

Crossing the liminal space of the pandemic