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Why Palliative Care Needs to Be Different

Maura J. Lipp, MD I was recently asked to give a presentation on what makes Palliative Care a specialty and why our team needs to function differently than “traditional” medical care. Naturally, this is a topic that can lead down many rabbit holes, depending on how you would like to broach the subject. The list…

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ADVOCACY MATTERS

Maura J. Lipp, MD People say the word advocacy quite a bit, but what does it really mean? For physicians, we’re always advocating for our patients. Sometimes in ways you don’t even recognize. We advocate when we need to speak with insurers about what’s best for our patients, with every peer-to-peer call. During family meetings,…

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IT’S TIME TO CHANGE OUR THINKING

By Maura J Lipp, MD There is one phrase used frequently in medicine, much to my dismay that I wish we could veto. Full disclosure, the sentiment when said, isn’t coming from a bad place. In fact, it’s coming from a beautiful place, an empathetic place. That place inside us that reels against terrible things happening to…

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“You’re What Kind of Nurse Practitioner?”

By Mary Lauren Doggett, FNP Probably the number one question I get when I tell people I am a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner, right after the polite smile and nod that tells me they have no idea what I just said, is “Soooo, what do you do, exactly?” (A close second to that is “How…

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Maura J. Lipp, MD

Hi friends! A little about me, I am a Pulmonary/Critical Care specialist as well as a specialist in Hospice and Palliative Medicine. I have been working as a full-time intensivist for the last 14 years. I’m also the Medical Director for a home-based community Palliative Care program. I am exceptionally grateful for such programs as I am now also a patient of one. I was diagnosed with stage 4 endometrial cancer 11/2021. The silver lining of my cancer diagnosis is that I now am afforded more time to explore another passion, writing.

Mary Lauren Doggett, FNP-C

Hey, y’all! I’m a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner, Christian, Wife to Clay, Mother of Coell, Hannah, Clay, Ada and Truett on Earth and one sweet baby in Paradise. My patients make me a better person every single day. My mission is to make their lives better in every way possible, and somehow, they do the same for me.

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