I found my professional passion in hospice 25 years ago. It was never my intention to work with people near the end of their lives. I went into medicine to cure and comfort, but I quickly learned the importance of comforting when a cure was no longer.
Ruth Jenkins would like you to think about death. Specifically, the Portland-based playwright and actor wants her audience to consider end-of-life care, along with the complex web of emotions, decisions and processes that go along with it. Jenkins’ new play, Quality of Death, explores the inters