Carlos Smith, Living with AIDS & Pain

Patient Interviews

Episode: 202
Length: 00:25:48

Carlos Smith discusses how palliative medicine revolutionized his quality of life living with AIDs by relieving the severe and constant pain he endures. Carlos shares how he combated negative patient stereotypes and communications silos that existed among some clinicians, and gives a tour of the complex medicine chest he manages daily. Interviewed by Charles von Gunten, MD