The Pediatric Palliative Care Team of Cape Cod has begun a new program of supportive services for children with life-limiting illnesses and their families.
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Carrying a small black bag, Dr. Suzana K. Everett Makowski melds all of the compassion and traditional services delivered by doctors from an earlier era with today's technology to offer her patients holistic and comprehensive treatment.
Medical director for the Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod, Dr. Makowski is the only doctor on the Cape practicing the specialty of palliative care and is one of only about 600 doctors nationwide who are fellowship-trained in this field.
Sitting in the Falmouth office of Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod one recent Friday, I received a phone call from our medical director, Suzana Makowski, M.D., calling from our Hyannis headquarters. “Can you come over to our Mary McCarthy House in an hour? We’re going to have a wedding there today”. Now, the Mary McCarthy House in Sandwich is no ordinary house – it’s the Cape’s only hospice residence, designed specifically as a place where patients can live out their final days in peaceful and supportive surroundings. Though most of the organization’s 800 patients a year choose to receive services in their own homes, it’s a wonderful option for those who are not able to be cared for at home. It’s a beautiful but unusual choice for a wedding. None had ever taken place there before.
Father’s Day can be bittersweet for those of us who no longer have our fathers, or who live too far away to see them. But when Bob Keeling, who lost his dad years ago, decided to volunteer for Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod, he formed a lasting bond that helped fill the void of his father’s loss.
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