What Can We Do When Prognosis Is Poor, the Patient Family’s Hope Is for a Miracle and the Treatment скачать в хорошем качестве

What Can We Do When Prognosis Is Poor, the Patient Family’s Hope Is for a Miracle and the Treatment

Three palliative care chaplain authors (Sarah Byrne-Martelli, Rhonda Cooper, and Leah Tenenbaum) explored dilemmas and opportunities associated with when patients and families speak of their hope for a miracle in medically troubled circumstances. Following the presentations, Dr. Eric Widera offered a response and facilitate a discussion. Sarah Byrne-Martelli, DMin BCC-PCHAC has served as a Palliative Care and Hospice chaplain since 2002. She is the Inpatient Chaplain for the Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Palliative Care and is on the Faculty of the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care. She holds a Doctor of Ministry from St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary and a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School. Rhonda Cooper, MDiv, BCC, a United Methodist clergywoman, has served as chaplain at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins for over 17 years. In collaboration with oncology colleagues, she wrote the AMEN article on responding to patients/caregivers who hope for a miracle in spite of a grave diagnosis, published in J of Oncology Practice (2014). Leah Tenenbaum, DMin, BCC-PCHAC, is chaplain for the Adult Inpatient Palliative Care Team at Yale New Haven Hospital, where she also serves on the Bio-Ethics Committee. Leah is an ordained rabbi who pursued her rabbinic studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, where she obtained both a Master of Hebrew Letters and a Doctor of Ministry. Eric Widera, MD, is a clinician-educator/Professor or Clinical Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics. His main goal is to improve the care provided to elderly patients with severe chronic and/or terminal conditions through program development and educational innovations. Eric accomplishes this through various leadership roles, including Director of the Hospice & Palliative Care Service at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. He is past members of the Board of Directors for the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM and a co-founder of GeriPal, a Geriatrics and Palliative Care blog and podcast, as well as ePrognosis, an online set of prognostic calculators for the elderly. Paul Galchutt, MDiv, MPH, BCC Research Staff Chaplain, M Health Fairview, University of Minnesota Medical Center; Convener, Hospice-Palliative Spiritual Care Research Network, Transforming Chaplaincy; Instructor, Research Literacy 101 with Transforming Chaplaincy; University of Maryland Palliative Care PhD student