Podcasts: Introduction

PCIC podcasts do not replace careful clinical judgement specific to each patient / family situation. ALWAYS use your careful clinical judgement when caring for each patient and family.

While podcasts can be played from the link below, if you click on the “more” icon, you will be able to play and or download them.

Table of Contents

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  Palliative Care is… Hospice Care is…

  Discover how early access to palliative and hospice care will improve the experience and prognosis of patients, families and caregivers living with any illness. Presented by Frank D. Ferris, MD

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  Need for Early Palliative & Hospice Care

  Discover the need for early palliative and hospice care followed by an interview with Emergency Room Physician Paul Been, who discusses how hospice care transformed his wife’s and family’s experience of living with a complete malignant bowel obstruction due to ovarian cancer. Presented by Frank D. Ferris, MD and Charles F. von Gunten, MD, with Christine Hudak., MD

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