Video: Stories of Hope and Life

In the library:
http://bookslibrarycebu.blogspot.com/2016/03/books-sorted-health-and-medicine-library-Nagle-Sacks-Groopman-Whitehouse-Alzheimers-Hematology-neurology-cancer-Cooke-Folkman-Spiro-Mercer-pediatrics.html

Vincent Nagle's slim book had and still has such a wide impact on me. It was reading it during my mother's illness and death that helped me "cope" as they say—but for me, to face, simply—the reality of a limit that is paradoxically crying for the unlimited.

An interview excerpt:
What does working with them mean for you?
These patients continually remind you of our limitations. Technological medicine cannot accept this limitation, and always seeks to overcome it, but isn’t able to do so. Maybe it can nudge it a bit, but you get to a certain point and you can go no farther. Medicine can’t ignore these patients. It can’t propose death by dehydration as a solution to the problem they pose. It would be absolutely inhuman, and the next step would be refusing care to all the gravely, chronically ill. For me, a society that calls itself civil must find the resources to give them assistance. We must also keep in mind that these patients are the “product” of progress in medical science, because forty years ago we didn’t have these patients–they died. Places for these patients must be created. Fifty years ago, there were no places for AIDS patients, and now there are. There were places for tuberculosis patients, and now they aren’t needed any longer.

You also deal with the relatives…

The relationship with them is not always easy, because they always harbor an enormous hope for healing. When you have a twenty-year-old son there… But they are indispensable figures. It often happens that a mother, a husband, or a wife will tell you, “When he hears my voice he smiles; when I enter the room he turns his eyes toward me,” and the doctor or nurse can’t catch these things. Someone who’s lived twenty or thirty years with them has a completely different ability to relate with them. Catching a smile, a movement of the lips, which for them is familiar, is very important. 

Here are videos of a "talk" or face-to-face encounter he gave (topic below).
From the Crossroads Cultural Center:

Every day we read in the newspapers or see on television reports about the tragic situation in the Middle East, and it is natural to ask the question: how can people go on living among all this violence and hatred? How can they not despair when it seems that at any time their own neighbors could turn against them and their family? And yet, poverty and despair are not so far from us. We know very well that there is great violence in our own society, even though it does not manifest itself as open warfare, but rather as denial of people's humanity, economic exploitation, manipulation of our desires, ideological hatred and so on. So the question applies to us, too: how to live in the face of an increasingly nihilistic culture and a fragmented society? To answer these questions what is needed are not theories but witnesses, people who have not given up on their humanity in the face of difficult situations, who have been able to recognize the fundamental positivity of reality and to keep seeking happiness in spite of all the contradictions.

Part I: Fear, Not Desire, is the Primary Tool that We are Manipulated

Part II: Someone is Coming for Me

Part III: Love for Reality. Joy is the Real Enemy of Satan

Part IV: Q&A: Something Bigger Than Myself; My Dog in Heaven