Jellybean 84 with Steve Philpot

LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blogTalking about talking about dying with Dr Steve Philpot, Master of Communication.In the week that one of the states in Australia has pretty much managed to pass assisted dying legislation I had to reach for this Jellybean recorded at the College of Intensive Care Medicine ASM in Sydney this year. The state of Victoria, where I personally reside, has almost passed the assisted dying bill. It has been a fractious and bitter process at times. But it is all but done. I have been waiting patiently for this. I have been very sad to watch patients waiting for this. Patients that couldn’t be patient.As you can imagine this law will impact ICU medicine. We, by which I mean anyone nursing/doctoring etc that’s directly or indirectly involved in intensive care medicine, will be having difficult conversations about this with our peers, our bosses, our friends, our patients and their families. We had better get our heads around this. Communication is key and it will extremely important not to f**k it up! So we need to learn what to do, practice doing it and get feedback on how we are doing it. Given that ICU consultants need to be brilliant at communication how do we manage to keep supporting and training ourselves and our colleagues in this area.Charlie Corke, President of the CICM of Australia and New Zealand has been a pioneer in this...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: JellyBean communication Death dying Steve Philpot Source Type: blogs