What opioid induced side effects your patient experiences : The key may be in genomics (Guest post by David Clark, MD,PhD)
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“Leadership is an affair of the heart!”: Stanford HPM Graduation Keynote on Leadership by Barry Posner PhD, co-author of “The Leadership Challenge”
Dedication
Thank you for this year long opportunity to be a member of the panel.
It was an introduction to Social Media and a learning experience.
I want to dedicate my experience to life long friends who dies this during this time.
Wonderful people who worked for social justice.
June is National PTSD Awareness Month
The Medical System’s Quarterback
Delicate Balance
Dying
Most of us have read On Death and Dying at some point in our training.
We learned about the different stages. The stages will occur at different times for different people. Some people may not experience all 5 stages (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, accepting).
How does being certified and recertified for hospice care effect the experience of these stages? I am seeing people who are confused by the concept of being on hospice yet are doing well. Does beginning hospice early make it easier or harder to go through these stages? Does one begin to think that s/he is not going to die? How is a decline in health viewed?
Hospice
I have been reading about the history of hospice.
I wonder what Vincent de Paul, Mary Aikenhead, Cicely Saunders other “pioneers” of caring for the dying would think of our current hospice and palliative care approach.
Would they see it as a move in the same direction that they were going?
Would they see it as something different?
