Dr Kathryn Mannix
Former palliative care doctor
Campaigning for better public understanding & conversations about dying
Writer: With The End In Mind & Listen
Speaker
Hopeful despite the circumstances.
www.kathrynmannix.com
- Ceilings of TREATMENT. We don't stop caring.
- This is who runs my social media accounts.
- Last few places for our Kiwi CBT skills training! Kathy Burn is on her way to Aotearoa, where she will teach days 1&2 at Mary Potter Hospice, Wellington on Feb 19 & 20. She & I will follow up with two online evening sessions in April & May. All booking via ANZSPM www.anzspm.org.au/Web/Web/Even...
- I've been supporting the team working towards Compassionate Gateshead, and they are holding their first Festival of Compassion in February and March. There are some great events and fantastic speakers. Take a look at the programme here www.compassionategateshead.org/festival and join me for...
- Doesn't this just make sense? Possibly similar for other LTCs.
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- It's #BuyAStrangerABook day at @biggreenbooks.bsky.social It's my birthday, so I'm celebrating by buying someone a book, in gratitude for the book-buying public that has been so kind to me. Info etc ⬇️
- I've just ordered myself some birthday flowers from my faves @BloomandWild. They've given me a share code: £10 off for you, plus £10 credit for me when you use it. I use flower arranging as a re-charge, so your flowers are a boost for me, too. bit.ly/KMflowers26
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- Why won't Bluesky let me post photos?
- Announcement for Twelfth Night: I have decided not to remove our Christmas decorations before my birthday in mid-January. I feel better already.
- We made it. Whether we relished 2025 or were clinging on in desperation, the new year is arriving. Time does that. No resolutions from me other than to remain curious. It helps to deal with the unpredictability of... well, everything.
- A Christmas present from @drjrubenstein.bsky.social & Dr Tammy Pegg. If we talk clearly about the end of life, we put those frantic & unlived moments of unhelpful #CPR into context so their futility is clear. CPR is fantastic first aid in a crisis. Ordinary dying isn't a crisis. Talk about it.
