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01/13/2012: Training Teaches Nurses How to Discuss Emotional Issues with Patients and Families
Taking the time to listen to families was one of the lessons involves in a Mass General nursing residency program focuses on palliative and geropalliative care.
01/12/2012: Seizing the Moment
The Palliative Care team at Mass General helps patients and their families understand the long-range prognosis of serious and life-threatening diseases so they can seize the moments when they are well.
03/25/2011: New chief of Palliative Care
MGH Hotline 03.25.11 VICKI JACKSON, MD, MPH, has been appointed chief of the MGH Palliative Care Unit.
01/28/2011: MGHfC hosts "Remembering Together" for bereaved families
MGH Hotline 1.28.11 The loss of a child is one of the most devastating experiences a person can endure.
08/27/2010: Palliative care
MGH Hotline 08.27.10 Integrating palliative care early in the treatment of advanced lung cancer not only improved patients' mood and quality of life, but also extended their lives.
08/18/2010: Lung cancer patients receiving palliative care had improved quality of life, extended survival
Integrating palliative care early in the treatment of patients with advanced lung cancer not only improved their mood and quality of life, it also extended their lives. In the August 19 New England Journal of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators report that patients with metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who received early palliative care along with standard treatment lived more than two months longer than patients receiving standard care only.
07/30/2010: White 9 wedding offers comforting last moments
MGH Hotline 07.23.10 Wedding bells were ringing through the hallways of White 9 on June 24 when Susan Wollison and Richard Porter exchanged their vows in the inpatient room of Susan’s mother, Marcia Labourene.
08/18/2010: Palliative Care Can Extend Life, Reduce Depression
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A new study by doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Cancer Center has shown that in lung cancer patients, the addition of palliative care measures at the time of diagnosis can significantly extend a patient’s life.
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Mind/Body Medicine for Cancer Patients
March 18, 2009 Palliative Care grand rounds presentation by Ann Webster PhD, Benson-Henry Institute, Mass General.
How do I know my patient is getting better?
March 11, 2009 Palliative Care ground rounds presentation by Eric Cassell MD, New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center.
The Emerging Role of the Palliative Care Social Worker
March 4, 2009 Palliative Care grand rounds presentation by Todd Rinehart LICSW, MGH Palliative Care Service.
Easing Suffering in Children with Advanced Cancer
Feb. 25, 2009 Palliative Care ground rounds presentation by Joanne Wolfe MD, Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital.
Biographical Impact of Teenage and Adolescent Cancer: Research Findings from the UK
Jan. 28, 2009 Palliative Care grand rounds presentation by Anne Grinyer, PhD.
Providers and Variations in End-of-Life Care for Cancer Patients
Dec. 3, 2008 Palliative Care grand rounds presentation by Nancy Keating MD, MWH General Medicine and Primary Care.
Teaching as a Performing Art
Dec. 10, 2008 Palliative Care grand rounds presentation by Charles Hatem MD, HMS Professor of Medicine, Mount Auburn Hospital.
Medical Futility: Philosophy and Practice
Dec. 17, 2008 Palliative Care grand rounds presentation by Robert L. Fine MD, Director, Palliative Care Service, Baylor University Medical Center.
Jewish Law and End of Life Decision Making
Jan. 28, 2009 Palliative Care grand rounds presentation by Craig Blinderman MD, Mass General Palliative Care Service.
Palliative Care in Situations of Conflict: Lessons from Jerusalem
Feb. 18, 2009 Palliative Care grand rounds presentation by Nathan Cherny MBBS FRACP FRCP, Ben Gurion University, Jerusalem, Israel.
Isn't there anything else we can do?
April 8, 2009: Isn't there anything else we can do?: The Role of Interventional Pain Techniques in the Palliative Care Patient", Mihir Kamdar, MD, Palliative Care Fellow, MGH/DFCI
Palliating the Body's Largest Organ: Skin Issues in Palliative Care"
April 15, 2009, Palliative Care Grand rounds presentation by Lindy Landzaat, DO, Palliative Care Fellow, MGH/DFCI, Boston, MA
Hospice Medicare Policy: Change is on the Horizon
April 29, 2009 Palliative Care Grand Rounds presentation by Melissa Wachterman, MD, Palliative Care Fellow, MGH/DFCI, Boston, MA
Spirituality and Palliative Care
May 13, 2009 Palliative Care Grand Rounds presentation by James Marroquin, MD, Palliative Care Fellow, MGH/DFCI, Boston, MA
Palliative Radiation in Children and Adults
June 6, 2009 Palliative Care Grand Rounds Presentation by Vern, DO, Pedatric Palliative Care Fellow, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
Best Interest of a Child: Revisited
June 17, 2009 Palliative Care Grand Rounds presentation by Arden O'Donnell, MPH, MSW, LCSW and Ashley Atkins, CPNP, Children's Hospital, Boson, MA
“The Caregiver: Implications of Family Caregiving for Clinicians. A Personal Odyssey”
September 30, 2009 Grand Rounds presentation by Arthur M. Kleinman, MD HMS Dept of Social Medicine
“Chronic Critical Illness: Triumph of technology of failure of communication”
October 7 2009 Grand Rounds presentation by Zara Cooper, MD Brigham & Women’s Hospital Surgery Dept.
Trauma and Medical Illness (title TBA)
December 2 2009 Grand Rounds presented by Glenn N. Saxe, MD Associate Chief of Psychiatry for Research and Development Children’s Hospital
My Inherited cancer syndrome, a physician’s experience
October 14 2009 Palliative Care Grand Rounds presented by John Halporn, MD, Partners Community Healthcare, Inc
Professional Development in Medical Education
October 28 2009 Palliative Care Grand Rounds presented by David H. Roberts, MD Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center – Div of Pulmonary and Critical Care
Developing Community Based Palliative Care in Africa
November 4 2009 Palliative Care Grand Rounds presented by David Lee, MD Lamb Pain Foundation
Clinical Transitions and Palliative Care
November 18 2009 Palliative Care Grand Rounds presented by Terrance O’Malley, MD Medical Director for Non Acute Care Services, North End Rehabilitation and Nursing Center
Trauma and Medical Illness
December 9 2009 Palliative Grand Rounds presented by Glenn N. Saxe, MD Associate Chief of Psychiatry for Research and Development Children’s Hospital
Spiritual Care at the End of Life
December 16 2009 Grand Rounds presented by Traci Balboni, MD, DFCI/BWH Radiation Oncology
Narrative InterventionNarrative Intervention: What? When? And with Whom?
January 6th Grand Rounds presentation by Laurie Rosenblatt, MD, Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
Fostering Faculty Development and Diversity: A University Perspective
January 20 Grand Rounds presentation by Judith D. Singer, PhD, Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity, Harvard University
Integrating Palliative Care into HIV/AIDS & Cancer Care in Developing Countries: The Case of Vietnam
January 13 Grand Rounds by Eric Krakauer, MD, PhD MGH Palliative Care
Promoting Professionalism: Can We Walk the Walk?
January 27 Grand Rounds by Jo Shapiro, MD, Chief, Division of Otolaryngology, Center for Professionalism and Peer Support, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Developmentally Disabled Adults: the Role and Challenges of Palliative Care
February 3rd 2010, Grand Rounds presented by Julie M. Hauer, MD, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
The End-of-Life Experience of Children Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant: Parent and Provider Perspecrives and Patterns of Care
February 10, 2010 Grand Rounds presented by Christina K. Ullrich, MD, MPH-Pediatrics, DFCI/Children’s
Communicating in the MICU: Implementing and Studying a Family Meeting Practice Change
February 17, 2010 Paul Currier, MD, MGH, Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit
Integrating Palliative and Oncology Care in Advanced Lung Cancer
February 24, 2009 Grand Rounds presented by Jennifer Temel, MD, Hematology/Oncology, MGH
Palliative Care Begins at Diagnosis: A Focus on the Humanistic Aspect
March 10, 2010 Grand Rounds presented by Teresa A. Gilewski, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY
Improving Quality at the End of Life with Videos:
March 17, 2010 Grand Rounds presented by Angelo Volandes, MD, MGH Medicine, Boston
Psychodynamics and Psychotherapy
March 24, 2010 Grand Rounds presented by David Doolittle, Psy.D, MGH Psychiatry, Boston
“Death of a Child in the ED: Where Angels Fear to Tread"
March 31, 2010 Grand Rounds presented by Patricia O’Malley, MD, MGH - Director, Pediatric Palliative Care, Boston
Tailoring End of Life Discussions to Patient’s State of Grief
April 7, 2010 Grand Rounds presented by Holly Prigerson, PhD, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston
Deciding when CPR is not beneficial: Challenges for providers, patients, and families
April 14, 2010 Palliative Care Grand Rounds presented by James Willett, MD, MBE, MGH/DFCI, Palliative Care, Boston
Palliative Care in Patients with Heart Failure
April 21, 2010 Grand Rounds presented by Kathleen Doyle, MD, MGH/DFCI Palliative Care, Boston
Reflection in Action:Mindfulness in the Palliative Care Clinician
May 5 2010 Grand Rounds presented by Heidi Blake, MD, Fellow, MGH/DFCI Palliative Care
Care of the Self and the Other: Mindfulness Practice in Palliative Care
May 12, 2010 Grand Rounds presented by Randall H. Paulsen, MD, Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
Integration of Palliative Care in the Liver Transplant Population: Paradox or Possibility?
May 19, 2010 Grand Rounds presented by Jamie Potosek, MD, Fellow, MGH/DFCI Palliative Care
Where the Sidewalk Ends? Helping Young Adults with Sickle Cell Disease Transition to Adult Care
May 26, 2010 Grand Rounds presented by Andrea Dimond, MD, Fellow, MGH/DFCI Palliative Care
Lidocaine, an Underutilized Therapy for Refractory Pain at the End of Life
June 2, 2010 Grand Rounds presented by Eve Block, MD, Fellow, MGH/DFCI Palliative Care
Providing Spiritual Care at the End of Life: Whose Responsibility Is It?
June 9 2010 Grand Rounds presented by Andrea Phelps, MD, Fellow, MGH/DFCI Palliative Care, Boston
