Practice offers alternative in end of life care
DR. DIANA BARNARD checks the lungs of palliative care patient Elaine Kaufman in her apartment in Middlebury.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell
MIDDLEBURY — For Middlebury resident Stephanie Smith’s mother, Marthena Smith, slow medicine seemed to be the right fit.
Marthena Smith, who died in June at age 89, enrolled herself in Porter Hospital’s Partners in Palliative and Home Care program the previous December. She had a stomach problem, and it seemed as though she was sick all the time.
“She just made the decision to go to them herself,” Stephanie Smith said. “They empowered both me and my mother to make decisions that were best for her.”
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