Dr. Maxxine Rattner is a hospice/palliative care clinician and educator. It was her own experiences as a front-line hospice social worker that inspired her to begin researching and writing about non-physical suffering. Her work seeks to create more space within palliative care literature and practice for the harder parts of living with, and dying from, a life-limiting illness. She recently completed her PhD on this topic, entitled, “Disrupting and expanding the discourse: Palliative care clinicians’ experiences with patients’ non-physical suffering”.
In this episode, we discuss the challenges in addressing non-physical suffering and the importance of making space within palliative care to do this intrinsically difficult work and approach the work without the expectation of “fixing” a patient’s or family’s suffering.
Resource links:
Increasing our understanding of nonphysical suffering within palliative care: A scoping review
August 2021
Palliative and Supportive Care 20(3):1-16
DOI:10.1017/S1478951521001127
Authors:
Maxxine Rattner
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Dr. Maxxine Rattner is a hospice/palliative care clinician and educator. It was her own experiences as a front-line hospice social worker that inspired her to begin researching and writing about non-physical suffering. Her work seeks to create more space within palliative care literature and practice for the harder parts of living with, and dying from, a life-limiting illness. She recently completed her PhD on this topic, entitled, “Disrupting and expanding the discourse: Palliative care clinicians’ experiences with patients’ non-physical suffering”.
In this episode, we discuss the challenges in addressing non-physical suffering and the importance of making space within palliative care to do this intrinsically difficult work and approach the work without the expectation of “fixing” a patient’s or family’s suffering.
Resource links:
Increasing our understanding of nonphysical suffering within palliative care: A scoping review
August 2021
Palliative and Supportive Care 20(3):1-16
DOI:10.1017/S1478951521001127
Authors:
Maxxine Rattner
In Season 2, we spoke to Andrea Warnick, a registered psychotherapist and educator on the topic of grief in children. This season we wanted to share the story of the Gerardi family. Throughout her 3 years of cancer treatments, Kasia remained open and honest with her four daughters. When Kasia learned that her cancer had metastasized to her brain and that the end of her life was near, she and her husband Ricardo worked together to make family life memorable and prepare for her death. Kasia died in December 2019. Ricardo is here today to tell us about what grief has looked like for him and for his daughters.
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Dr. Maxxine Rattner is a hospice/palliative care clinician and educator. It was her own experiences as a front-line hospice social worker that inspired her to begin researching and writing about non-physical suffering. Her work seeks to create more space within palliative care literature and practice for the harder parts of living with, and dying from, a life-limiting illness. She recently completed her PhD on this topic, entitled, “Disrupting and expanding the discourse: Palliative care clinicians’ experiences with patients’ non-physical suffering”.
In this episode, we discuss the challenges in addressing non-physical suffering and the importance of making space within palliative care to do this intrinsically difficult work and approach the work without the expectation of “fixing” a patient’s or family’s suffering.
Resource links:
Increasing our understanding of nonphysical suffering within palliative care: A scoping review
August 2021
Palliative and Supportive Care 20(3):1-16
DOI:10.1017/S1478951521001127
Authors:
Maxxine Rattner
