Show notes
Gomer's dad is out of the hospital and in a care home and this episode starts there, in the territory of walking a parent toward the end of his life. Luke and Gomer work through the lessons Gomer has picked up in the trenches: what hospitals won't tell you, how to have the DNR conversation, and why AI has become an unlikely companion through all of it. In This Episode:Why hospitals won't spell out what's actually happening with your loved one and how Gomer used AI to decode his dad's medical charts and communicate clearly with familyLesson one from the hospital: no one will tell you what's going on unless you make them, and the only people who will are in palliative careThe do-over myth and why middle age is when you realize the world stopped giving them to you—you don't go back, you live with the scar tissueThe DNR conversation: what it actually means, why outside-of-hospital DNR requires a signed document on the door, and why you should have it sooner than you thinkWhen specialists miss the whole person: how productivity-driven, siloed medicine can leave no one reading the full pictureChapters:Resources Mentioned:Rebuilding Mum and Dad (YouTube)Catching Foxes on SubstackProduced by Saint Kolbe StudiosSupport Catching Foxes

