Blog | Michael Kearney MD

Essays, Thoughts and Reflections

The purpose of this blog is to share thoughts and short pieces of writing with you.

I would love to hear your ideas and responses so we can create a community of dialogue and discussion.

One of my favorite poems is by the late Irish poet and Noble Prize Winner, Seamus Heaney: St Kevin and the Blackbird. St Kevin was an ear...

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let...

In beauty I walk, With beauty before me, I walk, With beauty behind me, I walk, With beauty above me, I walk, With beauty all around me, ...

This short chapter is in Edward Bastian’s book, Meditations for InterSpiritual Wisdom: Practices and Readings Drawn from the World’s Spir...

This chapter, which I co-authored with my wife, Radhule Weininger, is published as a chapter in the book, Whole Person Care: A New Paradi...

This article was published as an editorial in the journal Palliative Medicine in December 2003. In it, Kearney and Balfour Mount talk ab...

This article was published in the Journal of The American Medical Association (JAMA), in March 2009. In April 2009, the article was feat...