In this episode we focus on one of the most difficult and sensitive topics in medicine, End of Life decisions and Goals of Care.
When asked what patient's wanted from physicians at this difficult juncture in their lives most answered: clarity, transparency or honesty.
Palliative Care focuses on helping individuals with serious diagnoses at any stage of illness with the total effort of an interdisciplinary care team coordinating their care from the time of diagnosis throughout treatment to directives and assigning a proxy.
Our guest on this episode helps give patient’s a voice at the most difficult times in their lives.
Dustin Suanino MD is a physician Faculty member in Palliative and Geriatric Medicine At NYU Langone. A Board certified Internal Medicine physician who completed his residency at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. During his residency he served as chief resident and was honored with the Humanism Award in Internal Medicine. He then went on to complete an integrated Geriatric and Palliative Medicine fellowship at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He has a special interest in the education of palliative medicine. He is passionate about advocating for patients at the most difficult times in their lives.
He is joined by Dr Emily Shay (Infectious Disease and Critical Care) and Dr Kristen Scatliffe (Pulmonary Critical Care) as they discuss how to approach goals of care, prognosis and code status.
We take time to clarify terms often used and help guide #practitioners on how to improve this necessary skill. This is a great episode for #medicalstudents #residents #fellows #attendings #physicians #intensivists #oncology #palliativecare #familymedicine #internalmedicine #dnr #donotattemptresuscitation #codestatus #families #terminal #elderly #doctors #physicians #MD #DO