Tune in to Hospice and Palliative Care Discussions

Two recent online radio programs discussed hospice and palliative care.

First, Viki Kind, a personal healthcare strategist, medical ethicist, and hospice volunteer interviewed Dr. Christian Sinclair on May 29 on her Kind Ethics Talk Radio Show. Dr. Sinclair is associate medical director at Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care, writes for the Pallimed blog, and sits on the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine's Board of Directors. They discuss the challenges of end-of-life prognostication, including family expectations. He also talks about the difficulty doctors have discussing end-of-life care with their patients.

Second, Dr. Zoë A. Lewis, an internist and hospice and palliative care physician has started Hospice Radio, a one-hour interview-based program featuring topics and international experts in the fields of aging and end-of-life care. Her May 20 broadcast, “What is palliative care?” includes interviews with Judi Lund-Person from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization; Dr. Harry Moody, Director of Academic Affairs for AARP; and Jay Westbrook, RN, CHPN, the 2005 Visiting Faculty Scholar at Harvard Medical School’s Palliative Care Department. They discuss palliative care as a concentration of specialty care in the fields of nursing, social workand medicine and how palliative care can benefit patients and their families.