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Sông có khúc, người có lúc. Rivers have meanders, human life has phases —A Vietnamese proverb A whirlpool of thoughts On a crisp October morning, I walked across a university campus and thought, what am I doing here? I was heading to a 2-day train-the-trainer interprofessional spiritual care educational session.1 I was the lone pharmacist among chaplains, physicians, nurses, social workers, and administrators. A storm in the soul Days prior to arriving on campus, I reflected on my spirituality.

Précis A palliative care pharmacist highlights a spectrum of clinical opportunities for patients, caregivers, and clinicians when rounding at the bedside. Patient Story One of my patients, Dave, died at home in his wife’s arms after his illness with metastatic prostate cancer. I always loved his sense of humor, including the various T-shirts he wore with witticisms like “My oncologist does my hair” and “God gives us only what we can handle.

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