Sentences with phrase «palliative care physician»

The study reviewed 2,353 inpatient encounters that included palliative care physicians, who focus on alleviating pain, side effects, and improving quality of life for patients and their families during serious illness.

In the new treatment model, medical oncologists and palliative care physicians partnered in a «co-rounding» format to deliver cancer care for patients admitted to Duke University Hospital's solid tumor unit.

As a palliative care physician, BJ Miller is uniquely qualified to explore this topic.

I thank Michael Knower for his insightful «on - the - ground» report as a palliative care physician in Oregon, which affords him firsthand experience with the adverse effects of the law permitting assisted suicide.

«Many clinicians are afraid to talk about prognosis — how long a patient may have to live,» says Alexander Smith, a palliative care physician at the University of California, San Francisco.

But he's also a palliative care physician who knows a lot about pain management.

Erin Zimny, M.D., a Henry Ford Emergency Medicine and Palliative Care physician and a study co-author, attributes the misunderstanding to health care practitioners routinely asking patients for their emergency contact information without explaining what that information really is and means.

At Mass General, Dr. Juliet Jacobsen, a palliative care physician, serves as medical director for the Continuum Project, a large - scale effort to quickly train clinicians to have these conversations, document them and share what they learn with one another.

Before changing his diet, he was almost wheelchair bound, on 8 tablets of painkillers every day and attending a palliative care physician.

Palliative Care Physician, December 2009 — February 2012 Cancer Treatment Centers of America — Zion, Illinois