Palliative Care - Common Questions Answered

Doctors Lisa and Sara talk to Palliative Care Consultants Doctors Cat Barrat Ayres and Cat MacDermott about nausea and vomiting in palliative patients. We talk through their overview of assessing patients with these symptoms, tips to work out causes before considering medication ...  Show more

Doctors Lisa and Sara discuss lifestyle medicine with Dr Lydia Vogelaar-Kelly. We cover what lifestyle medicine is and her approach to it in general practice. We then look at some interesting cases that highlight how effective lifestyle medicine can be in consultations with patie ...  Show more

This is the third of three episodes on palliative care. In this episode, we review end of life care. We highlight the importance of discussing prognosis with patients, explore approaches to best estimate it, and introduce a structured framework around it. We define hospice care a ...  Show more

In this episode of the Dr. Informed podcast, the topic of discussion is death and dying, and how to involve patients in DNACPR decisions. The panel discuss the importance of doctors having discussions with patients about end-of-life care as a way of creating the best possible de ...  Show more

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In today’s episode, Ryan and Allison talk about end-of-life care, which can affect everybody in medicine, whichever point of the medical career path you’re in, especially as a resident and a practicing physician wherein you will be encountering patients who are moving forward or ...  Show more