Welcome to the Not Old Better Show, I'm your host Paul Volkizing.

We've got another great show today and once again this is an important one.

Today's show is important for a couple reasons.

First, it's a very personal story, one that I've lived so to speak with my own family. I've talked about this to you my

audience once before and I'll talk about it just briefly today telling our

family's personal story of hospice care before we speak to Dr Laura Patel. Dr Patel, whom

we'll hear from in just a bit is a hospice and palliative care medicine physician. We discuss

palliative care and we discuss hospice, which as you

all know I'm grateful for and a big fan of the hospice approach to hospice patients

and their families.

I don't normally do this, but I want to play a bit of my pre-interview conversation with Dr. Patel

to set the stage for our full interview.

Let me just jump in mid-conversation here here and you'll hear what I'm talking

about in terms of my respect trust and fondness in and for hospice. You know I

will tell you quickly too with regard to hospice. I'm a fan a huge fan. My father passed away the end of October and he was on hospice a couple of times just because of his condition released once and then put back on and my dad is a my dad was a

internist my sister's an internist, and my dad was also a, he had a kind of a

right brain left brain thing going on, he was a machinist. He loved to use the tool and dye lathing equipment to make, if you can

imagine, steam engines out of just literally hunks of iron.

And so what did hospice do?

As he had one particular steam engine.

These are amazing things that are built.

He had one that he had worked on for about eight years and he just he wasn't going to finish it you know just wasn't going to be you know that that option just wasn't wasn't going to be there for us, but hospice found a machinist locally.

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