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Karen Hitchcock

Dear Life: On Caring for the elderly (Quarterly Essay 57) by Karen Hitchcock

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June-July 2015, no. 372
Carol Middleton reviews 'Dear Life' by Karen Hitchcock

In her long-form essay Dear Life, columnist and fiction writer Karen Hitchcock considers how we in Australia treat the elderly and dying. To the task she brings her formidable skills as a writer and her experience at the coalface, working as a staff physician in a Melbourne public hospital. The result is a sensitive, rigorous, and moving account that ex ...