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A plea for help from the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic
I am a palliative care physician in a hospital in our nation ’s capital region. Like most urban hospitals, ours has been hit particularly hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. My colleagues and I are exhausted and emotionally devastated. We are not alone. Yesterday I learned a friend of mine from medical school, a selfless and compassion-driven […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 5, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/kristin-adams-forner" rel="tag" > Kristin Adams Forner, MD < /a > Tags: Physician COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs

The COVID-19 pandemic is changing end-of-life care. We ’re not ready.
The last thing Jessica said to John, her fianc é of 10 years, was, “I love you” before he drove to work. Hours later, after suddenly experiencing a cardiac arrest at the office, he was in an ICU bed attached to a ventilator. He was pale and unresponsive, on multiple medications to artificially augment his blood […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 18, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/lochan-shah" rel="tag" > Lochan Shah, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Palliative Care Source Type: blogs

Palliative care during the pandemic PODCAST
“We are health care workers. We are doctors, advanced care practitioners, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, and so much more. We are on the frontlines. We are our parents ’ children, and we are parents to our young children. For the first time, we are at an extremely high risk of being quarantined by the same beast […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 13, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > Tags: Podcast COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Palliative Care Source Type: blogs

What we can learn from a palliative care chaplain PODCAST
“Faced with the prospect of not being able to provide all COVID-19 patients with the life support that they may need, physicians and nurses are working in conditions that have been described as‘hell.’ How are providers to cope with the trauma they are experiencing in New York and Italy, and presumably other nations […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 10, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > Tags: Podcast COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Palliative Care Source Type: blogs

We need to learn to accept death in the United States
Life may never be the same after COVID-19. With tens of thousands of Americans having succumbed to the coronavirus in the United States, some of us are considering our own mortality. Life insurance companies have plenty of new customers. Estate planning attorneys are busier than ever. Many of us are thinking about how our loved […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 15, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/james-a-quinn" rel="tag" > James A. Quinn, PA-C < /a > Tags: Conditions Hospital-Based Medicine Palliative Care Source Type: blogs

Learning to cope with the pandemic from palliative care patients
I’m a palliative care chaplain who provides spiritual support to patients with serious, life-changing, and for some, life-threatening, illnesses. A common story they tell is an illness, like a storm, blew them off their life’s map. They find themselves lost in the unfamiliar territory of sickness. The future, once certain and promising, is now uncertain […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 8, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/rob-a-ruff" rel="tag" > Rob A. Ruff < /a > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Palliative Care Source Type: blogs

COVID tells us to have “the conversation” now
Insurance companies require doctors to ask dozens of questions and click on carpal-tunnel inducing boxes during a yearly physical. However, none of those questions or boxes address one of the most important aspects of a person ’s life, their death. So, as a family doctor, I encourage people to think about it, have “the conversation” with […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 5, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/ylfa-perry" rel="tag" > Ylfa Perry, MD < /a > Tags: Physician COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Palliative Care Source Type: blogs

COVID-19 is an opportunity to change the culture of death
The doom, gloom, and uncertainty surrounding the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic can be overwhelming, even for an emergency department physician such as myself. The heaviness of the situation largely stems from the deadly nature of the virus, our relatively minimal understanding of how it works, and our seeming inability to control the rapidly changing nature of […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 25, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/haleh-van-vliet" rel="tag" > Haleh Van Vliet, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Palliative Care Source Type: blogs

Cowardice in the face of coronavirus
When coronavirus exploded, my family was on vacation in Colorado. We played the news nonstop, and it was frightening. I ’m a control freak, a planner, and thus my worries were nonstop. What were other hospitals doing to prepare as compared to my own? What were the plans to ration PPE? How was the morale at […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 14, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jordana-kozupsky-bel" rel="tag" > Jordana Kozupsky, AGNP-BC, ACHPN < /a > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Palliative Care Source Type: blogs

When should we start having a discussion about palliative and end of life care?
Many of us are learning and refreshing our knowledge of critical care and vent management, but how about acknowledging that one of the most meaningful aspects of the art of medicine is simply to bear witness to, and ease the suffering of our fellow humans? So much energy of modern western medicine is fixated on […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 28, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/elaine-m-colby" rel="tag" > Elaine M. Colby, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Palliative Care Source Type: blogs

Grieving the end of life experience from an ICU nurse
The image of patients dying in the intensive care unit is changing. Over the phone, family members cry on the other end as I tell them that we are not allowing visitors due to “the coronavirus” at this time. They tell me, “but I help make his decisions for him.” These decisions now have to […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 28, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/anonymous" rel="tag" > Anonymous < /a > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Critical Care Infectious Disease Palliative Care Source Type: blogs