Description: Click here for the April edition of Palliative Care Grand Rounds. This month is hosted by blogger Palliative Care Success- he outlines what is happening in the palliative care blogosphere and provides links to all their posts. Topics range from health care reform to futile care and hot discussion topics debating the need for
Description: This Gel Video is of Bridget Duffy speaking at the 2009 Gel Health conference. She talks about her recent experience as a patient with a broken leg and how that has continued to inspire her work improving the patient experience. Link: Visit Site Media Video: Related Resources: Gel Health Conference 2009 Video: Dr. Bridget
Synopsis: Joan Bakewell discusses the real-life case of Mary, a terminally-ill woman in her 80s. She has considered her condition and has decided that she wants to die. Source: The BBC Vol/Page/Date: August 6, 2009 Resource Type: Video or Podcast Author/Source: BBC: Inside the Ethics Committee Link URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00lvgwj keywords: ethics, suicide, refusing palliative care
Description: November 22, 2009: CBS did a segment entitled "The Cost Of Dying" on tonight's 60 Minutes.Considering the title of the segment and the short amount of time alloted to it, CBS's coverage was accurate and thought provoking.I'd have done some things differently.....for example: Point made: Patients most often don't pay their medical
Description: November 23, 2009: Diane Meier just tweeted: "60 minutes misses the point- palliative care is about matching treatment to patient goals, NOT stopping it." The central question raised by the 60 minute episode and subsequent discussion: how should costs fit into the conversation about end-of-life care? Various positions: 1. We should focus on
Description: Some conversations are easier than others Last Thanksgiving weekend, many of us bloggers participated in the first documented “blog rally” to promote Engage With Grace – a movement aimed at having all of us understand and communicate our end-of-life wishes. It was a great success, with over 100 bloggers in the healthcare space and
Description: This Bryan Harnetiaux play offers a warm and often funny exploration of a family’s struggle with a variety of end-of-life issues as they come to terms with the eventual loss of their matriarch, Vesta. This 90-minute drama has been used by hospices, churches, divinity schools, medical schools, and other organizations all over the nation
Synopsis: Dean Ornish talks about simple, low-tech and low-cost ways to take advantage of the body's natural desire to heal itself. This talk is very entertaining, interesting and packed with information that supports the healing wonders of the body-- even when illness and disease have already set in. Source: Website: TED ideas worth spreading Vol/Page/Date:
Synopsis: Visiting children and their families in the hospital, Clown Care founder Michael Christensen has learned to focus on "what's going right" in the room. Speaking at the first Gel Health conference, Christensen describes how his clown rounds got started, and finishes with an on-stage performance as Dr. Stubs. Source: GEL (Good Experience Live) Health
Synopsis: Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone... Link to Full Poem Source: Selected poems by W.H Auden Vol/Page/Date: 1989 Resource Type: Book Author/Source: W. H. Auden keywords: poetry, death, W.H Auden Submitter: Peters Related Resources: Excerpt from "In Blackwater Woods"; a poem by
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