Vincent Dodd

Vincent Dodd began nursing in 1985. He did what he calls a “nursing residency,” by working 4 years in the Emergency Department at Charity Hospital in downtown New Orleans.

Vincent spent 21 yrs of hands-on experience and teaching in hospital emergency and intensive care units across the country. This led to his writing the book, “Suffer Less in Death.” His passion to write came from two sources. One from witnessing patients and their families suffer, believing they were doing the right thing by trying to prevent a near, unavoidable, and inevitable death. The other came from the fact that families would say, “Do everything,” doctors would write the orders, and he, the nurse, was left to perform the procedures that inflicted the pain in the attempt to extend the life of the human being whose unpreventable death was near.

He wrote “Suffer Less in Death” to address misconceptions, attempt to alleviate fears and explain about the futility of many procedures that are preformed to attempt to buy time before death. Caring for a person’s emotional and mental needs, beyond their physical body, has always been important to Vincent. This and caring for the family is just as important as caring for the body.

Vincent is available for public speaking and spends time in peoples homes the last few hours or days before death to provide general support to the dying and their family.

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