End of LifePalliative CareModern BardoCommunicationIntegrative Practice
Talking With Patients About Dying: A Practitioner's Starting Point
Medically Reviewed by Derek Doran, BHSc (Acupuncture) · AHPRA Registered · AACMA Member · Updated September 7, 2026
September 7, 20267 min readBy Derek Doran
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is end-of-life support within a Chinese medicine practitioner's scope?
Symptomatic comfort care and supportive presence are within scope when delivered alongside — never instead of — palliative and medical care. Prognosis, medication decisions and formal psychological therapy are not.
What are the three tracks in The Modern Bardo?
Living, for applying the material to ordinary life; Clinical, framing the dying process in observable terms for practitioners; and Traditional, the classical teachings with full sources and citations.
Is The Modern Bardo a religious text?
It is a contemporary rendering of traditional Tibetan material, written to be readable without religious commitment. Every historical claim is cited to its source edition.
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Derek Doran, BHSc (Acupuncture)
AHPRA Registered (CMR0002211465) · AACMA Member
Derek is the founder of MediChi and a registered acupuncturist with clinical expertise in integrating Western diagnoses with Traditional Chinese Medicine treatment protocols.
Clinically reviewed: September 7, 2026
