A Cat That Foresees Death When Oscar ,the cat visits the
residents of the Steere House
Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island, the staff jumps into action-Oscar can sense within hours when some is about to die.
In his two years living in Steere’s end-stage dementia unit,Oscar has been at the bedside of more than 25 residents shortly before they died . Dr. David Dosa of Brown University in Providence has written about Oscar in the New Englan
d Journal of Medicine
“It’s not that the cat is constantly there first ,” Dr. Joan Teno ,a professor of community health at Brown University says who sees patients in the unit. “But the cat always does manage to make an appearance, and it always seems to be in the last two hours.”
Raised at the nursing
home ,since he was a kitten, Oscar often checks in on the residents, but when he curls up for a visit, physicians and nursing home staff know it’s time to call the family.
“I don’t
think this is a psychic cat.” Said Dr. Teno “I think there’s probably a biochemical explanation.”
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