Get your loved one’s fingerprint! I’m so glad the funeral home suggested it. That’s my dad’s fingerprint on my necklace - I’m so grateful to have it
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Integrative Palliative Physician | Education & support for clinicians and family caregivers of the ill and aging | Author, Coping Courageously | Keynote speaker | Pro vaccines & science | Lover of dogs and deep conversations (she/her) #MedSky #palliative
When you experience traumatic grief the grief and trauma get all mushed together. Sometimes the trauma part can make normal grieving harder #grieving #caregiver #endoflife
It's #WorldHealthDay! The Canadian Virtual Hospice provides support and personalized information about advanced illness, #PalliativeCare, loss and #Grief to people living with illness, family members, people working in #HealthCare, educators, and researchers.
@maddow.msnbc.com thank you for bravely speaking the truth and sticking up for your coworkers. I am grateful for your example of how to be a deeply decent human!
I finished recording my audiobook today! (for Coping Courageously: A Heart-Centered Guide for Navigating a Loved One’s Illness Without Losing Yourself). I’ve been procrastinating for a year & am so happy to have finally done it! I took 1 tiny step & that got me going. What helps you get unstuck?
Physicians, even elected ones, should support science. People who are in charge of national healthcare should also support science.
Does it seem like our nation needs some palliative care? Are we the anxious family with anticipatory grief? #HPM #palliativecare
If your loved one is aging or seriously ill, don’t mess up your relationship with them by being overly controlling. When time is short, connection matters. #caregiving #cancer #palliativecare
Think of two buckets. One bucket holds your preparation for what you hope doesn’t happen and the other bucket holds your hope for a good outcome. Usually when I say this I’m taking about serious illness. But right now that’s not the only place that it applies.
The CDC is scrubbing manuscripts of gender affirming language? When being kind to other people has become unacceptable, what have we become? #medsky
Choose your words carefully when you talk to people who have declining function due to age or illness. Don’t say: “oh is it too hard for you to go out? I’ll bring you lunch.” Say this: “I’m happy to bring lunch to you if you’d prefer”
When life is tough… - do the next reasonably good thing - breathe slowly and deeply - share the feelings with someone. - go outside - look away from screens - pet your dog - get enough sleep - listen to music that makes your body move - find something that makes you laugh What would you add?
BREAKING: For the first time in its more than 60-year history, the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) did not go out as scheduled because of a communications pause at federal health agencies issued by the Trump administration. #medsky www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
Trump's Gag Order Halts CDC Publication
MMWR did not publish as usual at 1 p.m. today
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Courage. When the opportunity arises to be courageous, grab it. Tough conversations? Admitting a mistake? Speaking truth to power? Here’s an example of courage www.threads.net/@meidastouch...
MeidasTouch (@meidastouch) on Threads
Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.
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Denial gets a bad rap. Sometimes it is a helpful, temporary coping strategy #medsky
If you're a physician or clinician with an inking that you'd like to be an entrepreneur, this episode is for you. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
For oncology & palliative care physicians/clinicians: I'm creating a program called Healing the Heart of the Healer for those who feel depleted, disillusioned, or worn out. For now, here's a free 7 step guide to improve wellbeing in clinicians who care for the ill or aging. Link in comments.🌺
Your cognitively intact elderly parent may make decisions that you disagree with. They may even make decisions that could shorten their life. They have the right to make these decisions. It’s OK for you to not like this and also not try to control or change it. #palliativecare #medsky
A few important nots: - hospice is not a place - palliative care is not hospice - talking about death does not make people give up or die - at the end of life food does not make you stronger - taking morphine for advanced cancer pain does not mean you’re dying/an addict/giving up #palliativecare
Excited (and a little nervous) to be interviewed on Baltimore’s NPR station about palliative care! #palliativecare #HPM
Any physicians who have experience writing USMLE style questions? In the med ed side of my work I am looking to hire some contractors to write Qs. Flexible, remote. Reach out if interested (and tell your friends!)
I had some meaningful conversations this week with an aging parent and with my young adult daughters. It took courage, vulnerability and an open-hearted approach. Is there a conversation that you’ve been meaning to have?
This week's podcast: The Tyranny of Expectations. Holidays are packed w/ expectations. We create expectations like "everyone will get along and be pleasant over holiday break," get disappointed when our expectation aren't met & create unnecessary negativity & suffering. #holidaystress Link below
I see palliative care as symptom management + avoiding regret. ...decisions you made or didn't make ...relationships that you didn't mend. ...important conversations that you never got around to having. I talk about avoiding regret on The Integrative Palliative this week (link in comments).
I learned today that fentanyl patches shouldn’t be placed over tattoos because the patient won’t get the full dose of the med. Did everyone know this but me?? #Medsky #palliaky #palliative
If someone you love is seriously ill and cure isn’t an option, consider making avoiding regret (things unsaid, fights about dumb things, etc) one of your primary goals
I so appreciate the Author Spotlight in the Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy associated with my article. All palliative care should be integrative palliative care! #palliative #HPM #hapc #medsky #pallisky #integrativepalliative www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Author Spotlight: Delia Chiaramonte, MD
Published in Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy (Vol. 38, No. 3, 2024)
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Advance Directives & Emergency Medicine: Wisdom From the Front Lines with Dan Morhaim, MD #MedSky #medicaleducation #HAPC podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Advance Directives & Emergency Medicine: Wisdom From the Front Lines with Dr. Dan Morhaim
Podcast Episode · The Integrative Palliative Podcast · 12/05/2024 · 47m
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