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In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team socialworker. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL socialworkers have to offer our field? I don’t know if this person was a socialworker or not. Barbara: Yay.
First we have Michael Kearney, who’s a palliative and hospice doctor at the Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara and author of several books. His latest book is called Becoming Forest A Story of Deep Belonging, and he’s the founder of the Becoming Forest Project. And I would just plug this book. Canadians are welcoming.
He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. I have written about it in the book. Alex: I love the story of this book, how it starts so locally and then moves on to the Kerala region and then moves to India. Tom: Okay, great.
Janet is the author of the 4th edition of the book Comprehensive Guide to Supportive and Palliative Care for Patients with Cancer, along with co-authors Molly Collins and BR Daubman. This book is terrific, truly comprehensive, and is a go to resource for when I’m “stuck” taking care of patients with cancer. . Janet: Beautiful.
We’ve invited: Julie McFadden (aka Hospice Nurse Julie ): Julie is a social media superstar, with 1.5 She covers topics on death, dying, and hospice from a hospice nurse perspective, and she also has a book coming out called “ Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully ,” which is now available for pre-order.
Her first publication, a children’s book entitled Daniel’s World: A Book About Children with Disabilities , is the closest to her heart. That CNA, that nurse, that socialworker, that chaplain feels supported in the field by this robust tool.
Because, if anybody hasn’t seen it, you’ve got a great Twitter feed that gives tons of pearls on palliative care and a lot on communication. Speaking of pearls, should we move to Shunichi’s Twitter feed? Alex: Shunichi, your Twitter feed is like haiku. What motivated you to dive into this? Eric: And Abby?
She is a guest host and she’s a palliative care socialworker. Mariah 15:00 In books and literature that’s out in public, like the body keeps the score is probably one that many people have heard of, but there are others that I think talk about it more now than has been in the past. Alex 00:07 We do.
However if you want to take a deeper dive, check out his website “ The Ink Vessel ” or his amazing twitter feed which has a lot of his work in it. But luckily, Anne Kelly, our socialworker, was in the room with me and said the magic thing that just was the right thing to say. She has a book out. Transcript.
Like, just even having that and normalizing it, and, like, after 13 years of training or 15 or whatever, chaplains, nurses, socialworkers, patient care assistants, everyone is working in these systems that are not built to take care of them. This whole idea that our worth is not equal to our productivity. We should be writing.
I'm not a socialworker. And of course, we've been bombarded by movies and books and all sorts of things. And again, from the movies, the TV shows, the books, the stories, we've been told that, well, death is a bad thing and dying is a bad thing and it's to be avoided at all costs. I'm not a nurse. How cool was that?
I'm not a socialworker. He was an awesome sounding board as well for me, when I was dealing with tough issues like DNR s and, and feeding tubes and all of those emotional issues that my wife and I had to tackle about our son on his journey. And Cosmos in the shade back by the trees, enjoying a nice summer nap. I'm not a doctor.
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