3/23/18: Discussing Prognosis with Patients and Families: Balancing Honesty, Compassion and Hope

Описание: Timothy Quill, MD, presents a lecture about patient-doctor relationships and communicating about prognosis, including delivering bad news. Dr. Quill is the Georgia and Thomas Gosnell Distinguished Professor of Palliative Care, and Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, Medical Humanities and Nursing at the University of Rochester School of Medicine (URMC). He was the Founding Director of the URMC Palliative Care Program and is the Acting Director of the URMC Paul M. Schyve Center for Bioethics. His scholarly work focuses on various aspects of the doctor-patient relationship, with special focus on end-of-life decision making, including delivering bad news, nonabandonment, discussing palliative care earlier, and exploring last-resort options. He is the author of several books on end-of life. The title of his March 23, 2018 Grand Rounds talk is "Discussing Prognosis with Patients and Families: Balancing Honesty, Compassion and Hope." Dr. Quill was invited to deliver this Grand Rounds as a "Dream Speaker" invited by Internal Medicine Chief Residents.

University of Wisconsin Department of Medicine Grand Rounds are presented throughout the academic year and are intended for health care professionals and medical researchers. Unless otherwise indicated, Grand Rounds occurs in the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital auditorium, Room A1028, Madison, Wisconsin. All faculty and staff are invited and encouraged to attend. For more information on the Grand Rounds lecture series, visit http://www.medicine.wisc.edu/dom/medi...