We are born, we live, we get old, and then we die. This is the natural cycle of life. One thing is certain, humans have a 100% mortality rate.
Death is a rite of passage in which we all participate – as a family member, a health care provider, or as a patient. Some of us even participate as all three.
Health care providers often view death through a biomedical lens and define death as a physiological event. As a result, they often view death very narrowly as a medical failure. Therefore, health care providers are often the worst “death deniers” in American society.
Instead of talking about death and dying openly and honestly and allowing their patients to prepare for their departure, many health care providers often put their patients on the “medical treadmill” of another surgery, another amputation, another round of chemotherapy, or more radiation. Such medical treatment is frequently futile and only serves to steal the patient’s quality of life at the end-of-life.
In this episode, our host, Tim Jordan, talks to Kelvin Freeman about what he has learned via his research with program directors of physician assistant training programs across the U.S.
Do physician assistant students receive adequate end-of-life education during their training? Listen and find out.
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Resources for This Podcast:
Detroit Michigan Health Department: https://detroitmi.gov/departments/detroit-health-department
Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the U.S. Department of Labor. Emergency Preparedness and Response. https://www.osha.gov/emergency-preparedness
Article: (2024). Applying a Health Equity Lens to Better Understand End-of-Life Prognostication.
https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/applying-health-equity-lens-better-understand-end-life-prognostication/2024-10
Blog (2023). Adding Life to One’s Remaining Days.
https://1795group.com/adding-life-to-ones-remaining-days/
Article: (2021). The COVID-19 pandemic has changed dying and grief: Will there be a surge of complicated grief? Death Studies, 84-90;
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07481187.2021.1929571
Article: (2020). COVID-19 brings a new urgency for advance care planning: Implications for death education.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07481187.2020.1821262
Article: (2019). Dying Well-Informed: The Need for Better Clinical Education Surrounding Facilitating End-of-Life Conversations. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6913833/#:~:text=Moreover%2C%2040%20percent%20of%20medical,informing%20patients%20about%20their%20prognoses
Letter to the Editor: The Uphill Task of Improving End-of-Life Training in U.S. Internal Medicine Residency Programs (2019).
https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/fulltext/2019/10000/the_uphill_task_of_improving_end_of_life_training.5.aspx
Article: (2017) Predicting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Advance Care Planning Using the Integrated Behavioral Model.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0030222817691286?casa_token=ksd86v_2QwAAAAAA%3AS6NMzc4Ve_JdlusxbnlPdlYVy-Z4c9a6PtfgofOiAYP39LyxSh0A2eXiqWBjNfeg_NAG-HxhyWXo
Article: (2016). Teaching About Life and Living in Courses on Death and Dying. Death Studies. Written by Charles Corr.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0030222815575902?casa_token=yIb4TUwp3H8AAAAA%3A6CdzEs53Wn65ALnwonTDLydfKDV_HEuiJ4wNn7retxXyRrL1HKpVy8LloywVLzahA1_j18GJjbON
Podcast: Episode 7: Death and Dying from the Perspective of a Hospice Nurse – An Interview with Nurse Penny.
https://1795group.com/episode/episode-7-death-and-dying-from-the-perspective-of-a-hospice-nurse-an-interview-with-nurse-penny/
TV interview with Dr. Tim Jordan on bereavement and grief. https://youtu.be/a0QWYEmbw40
Blog: The Mountain that Everyone Must Climb.
https://1795group.com/the-mountain-that-everyone-must-climb/
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