Lessons from a Therapist’s Chair: Optimizing Palliative Communication through Psychotherapy Best Practices and Skills
The use of communication as a therapeutic tool is an essential piece of both palliative medicine and psychotherapy. The approach with which communication is conceptualized and taught, however, is markedly different between the two fields.
Category
  • Communication/Teamwork
Format
  • Interactive Enduring Activity
Credits
  • 0.50 ABIM MOC
  • 0.50 CME (physician only)
  • 0.50 Participation
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED): A Viable, Lesser Known Palliative Option of Last Resort
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED) has recently gotten attention as a viable 'last resort' palliative option for patients who want to escape their current medical situation through a self-initiated death, but might not qualify for a physician assisted death or might not want it even
Category
  • Bioethics
Format
  • Interactive Enduring Activity
Credits
  • 0.50 ABIM MOC
  • 0.50 CME (physician only)
  • 0.50 Participation

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