Lynn Hallarman

Palliative Care Physician, Independent Journalist

Lynn Hallarman, MD served as the director of palliative medicine at Stony Brook Medicine in New York. She now works as a consultant for the National Center for Equitable Care for Elders at Harvard University and as a health science journalist. See her work at lynnhallarman.com

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Written by Lynn Hallarman

Photo of a car’s interior at night with motion blur, showing a driver’s arm steering through illuminated streets.

essayIllness and disease

Katie’s story

Frontotemporal dementia is rare and ruthless. When it robbed Katie of her husband at 33, his story became her life’s work

Lynn Hallarman

A close up picture of hands playing a silver brass flute with a shallow depth of field such that the foreground fingers and keys are more in focus

essayMusic

To the tune of dystonia

One day, my hand stopped speaking to my brain. As a doctor and flute player, I had to understand this strange affliction

Lynn Hallarman