Lynn Hallarman

Palliative Care Physician, Independent Journalist

Lynn Hallarman, MD served as the director of palliative medicine at Stony Brook Medicine in New York. She now works as a consultant for the National Center for Equitable Care for Elders at Harvard University and as a health science journalist. See her work at lynnhallarman.com

Written by Lynn Hallarman

A child’s hand resting on an elderly person’s hands.

Learning to inhale

I brought my newborn to visit a hospice patient. It took me far from what I’d thought medicine was

by Lynn Hallarman