Leading with Love: Tacking Hard Problems and Breathing New Life Into Hospice
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Author: Ira Byock
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Level: Intermediate
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Study time: 1.25 hours
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Course overview
Dr. Byock offers a practical strategy for addressing the hard problems we face providing the best care for ill and dying people.
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Video time: 1.25 hours
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Hard Problems, New Solutions
In this presentation, Dr. Byock offers a practical strategy with 5 key elements for addressing the hard problems we face and realizing our field’s dual mission of providing the best care for ill and dying people, and helping society integrate illness, caregiving, dying, and grieving within a continuum of living fully.
Ira Byock, MD, FAAHPM
Principal, Clinical Transformation Specialists
ABOUT Dr. Byock
Ira Byock is a leading medical authority, author, and public advocate for improving care for people living with serious medical conditions. Dr. Byock is an active emeritus professor of Medicine and Community & Family Medicine at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. During his clinical career, he earned specialty certifications in Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Hospice & Palliative Medicine. Dr. Byock has been involved in hospice and palliative care since 1978. He is a past president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
He has authored numerous articles in academic journals. His research has contributed to conceptual frameworks for the lived experience of illness, developed measures for subjective quality of life, and refined counseling methods for life completion and wellbeing. His article, Taking Psychedelics Seriously, in 2018, helped spark renewed interest in psychedelic-assisted therapies within the field of palliative care. His first book, Dying Well, became a standard in the field of hospice and palliative care. The Four Things That Matter Most is widely used in counseling within palliative care, pastoral care, and psychology. The Best Care Possible presents the potential for health care transformation. Dr. Byock lectures nationally and internationally.
He has authored numerous articles in academic journals. His research has contributed to conceptual frameworks for the lived experience of illness, developed measures for subjective quality of life, and refined counseling methods for life completion and wellbeing. His article, Taking Psychedelics Seriously, in 2018, helped spark renewed interest in psychedelic-assisted therapies within the field of palliative care. His first book, Dying Well, became a standard in the field of hospice and palliative care. The Four Things That Matter Most is widely used in counseling within palliative care, pastoral care, and psychology. The Best Care Possible presents the potential for health care transformation. Dr. Byock lectures nationally and internationally.
