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	Someone Who Cares: Three Portraits An overview of the Schwartz Center Compassionate Caregiver Award. The award was established in 1999 as a way to honor those Massachusetts caregivers who display extraordinary compassion in caring for patients and their families. Windows Video (WMV) Return to Media Center		Media Center

‘‘The secret of caring for the patient is in caring for the patient.’’
Francis Greenwood Peabody, 1847-1936

A PATIENT’S STORY
In 1994, Ken Schwartz developed lung cancer. Read his extraordinary story. More >>

COMPASSIONATE CONNECTIONS

Visit the Schwartz Center's newest patient-centered initiative at CarePages, where patients, families and friends create free online support communities... Visit >>

OUR MISSION
To support and advance compassionate health care in which caregivers, patients and their families relate to one another in a way that provides hope to the patient... More >>

SCHWARTZ CENTER ROUNDS
Our multidisciplinary forum where caregivers discuss difficult issues arising from patient care. More >>

CAREGIVER TESTIMONIALS
‘‘Every time I find a project or organization that supports the human dimension of medicine, the Schwartz Center supports it...’’ More >>