#Palliative

Tony Duffy 💙

Existential_Doc

Usually best to avoid labelling anyone as “being palliative” or having “palliative cancer/heart failure etc.”The approach to their management may adopt a palliative philosophy but it is not an umbrella

Jonathan Yeh MD

JonathanYehMD

Okay, I'll bite. It's not that the word "palliative" is scary. The public barely even knows what it means. Heck, my own family barely knows what it means. You know

Dr Ros Taylor 💙

hospicedoctor

Demand for #PalliativeCare brought forward 20 years by pandemic ....7 Point Action plan from @CicelySaunders1 @ij_higginson #hpm#CSIactionplanhttps://cicelysaundersinternational.org/action-plan-for-palliative-care/

Paulette Feeney

PauletteParis1

About the "defund the police" issue.The morning my husband died, I had to call 911 as he was not yet on hospice care. He was on palliative care as he

Statistics Guy 🤓

Stat_O_Guy

#Wales Health Time bomb broken down by treatment group.Cardiology - A massive drop of in wave 1 and this has not recovered to normal levels, if these people die this

Shunichi Nakagawa

snakagawa_md

I use "what are you most worried about?" most frequently. I also use this q during the initial palliative care consult (not during serious convo), after I introduce myself, explain

Kathryn Mannix 💙

drkathrynmannix

The time to act is now.#CSI_ActionPlan #PalliativeCare https://cicelysaundersinternational.org/action-plan-for-palliative-care/ It is a human right to expect #UniversalHealthcare to include access to symptom management and compassionate sup

Andy Bradshaw

Andy_bradshaw94

Thread 1/11 - Check out the latest paper from the RESOLVE team - published in @PalliativeMedJ - on understanding the processes and mechanisms underpinning the successful implementation of outcome measures

Jared Rubenstein, MD

DrJRubenstein

Once again the conversation has started about whether we should change the name “palliative care.”I appreciate the rationale including points made in a recent @washingtonpost article.Allow me to present a

G Peters ♿️ It's still a pandemic btw.

mssinenomine

"Euthanasia deaths are now serving as a growing source of organ and tissue donations in Canada. Unlike other countries, Canada is the first jurisdiction to allow non-patient-initiated discussion of organ

UN Special Rapporteur on poverty and human rights

srpoverty

Today I release my first annual report on the impact of COVID19 on people in poverty, scrutinizing the recent wave of social protection. I find that most measures are maladapted,

josh sommovilla

jsommov

I’m happy to have stumbled across this great tweet and article by @FabianJohnston from a few months back. As a surgeon who sees lots of cancer patients and palliative medicine

Elizabeth Gundersen

Top_Gundersen

#hapc21 day #2's plenary is starting! Thank you @questmd @RonitElk @palliator for sharing your wisdom. .@questmd shares her story. #hapc21 Thank you @questmd for such a heartfelt reflection. Such a

Kate McKillip, MD (she/her)

KateMcKillipMD

I am a #palliative care doctor. I am caring for multiple patients dying of #Covid. When I meet with families, I always ask, “tell me about your loved one- what

Joseph Friedman

JosephRFriedman

New Research shows 10-fold disparities in opioid prescribing rates between Mexican states based on SES.Patients in Mexico receive a tiny fraction of the opioids needed for palliative care. Led by

Sarah Jama #DefundThePolice (she/her)

SarahJama_

We don't really need Long Term Care homes. If we understand aging & disability as inevitable, we must restructure society to fund: accessible homes, full attendant care, all meds/assistive devices,

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