Tag: cancer
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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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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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Why Honesty Matters
Our Patients Should Demand This of Us, Even When it Hurts. By Maura J Lipp, MD One of the hardest things we do as physicians is deliver bad news. Getting it right is critical. This seems like an obvious statement, but there is more to it than what is apparent on the surface. While we’re…
Palliative Life 