Takeaway
Palliative care is an approach to medicine that focuses on quality of life. My hope is that every clinician learns basic palliative skills to lead family conversations when there is a critically ill patient. It's a precious privilege to be able to enter people's lives at their most vulnerable time, and help them find some kind of peace.
Lifelong Learning in Clinical Excellence | January 30, 2019 | <1 min read
By Gretchen Miller, Managing Editor
David Shih Wu, MD, talks about what palliative care means to him with our pre-med videographer Dean Chien.
“Palliative care is an approach to medicine that focuses on quality of life … What I see as the heart of palliative care is getting to know patients and families on a deep level, to know their story and their perspective … My hope is that every clinician learns basic palliative skills to lead family conversations when there is a critically ill patient … It’s a precious privilege to be able to enter people’s lives at their most vulnerable time, and help them find some kind of peace.”
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