You're Sick. It's Serious.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Health care
• Palliative care
• Palliative Medicine
• End-of-life
• Hospice
• Serious illness
• Heart failure
• Cancer
• Dementia
• COPD
• ALS
• Pain
• Symptoms
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• Aging
• AAHPM
• HPM
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[angelface2157]

As a hospice and palliative care nurse, I'm not offended at all. AAHPM members are primarily physicians. If the video had been made by the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association it's focus would primarily be on the nursing aspect of palliative care. Raising awareness of palliative care as a treatment option is the important message here. Patients choosing palliative care will benefit from the entire pc team, regardless.

[dayhillstheone]

I thought it was a Chevron ad.

[docstudlee]

AAHPM Messiah Complex Propeganda

[tquinn152]

I'm an advanced practice nurse in supportive cancer care. I agree that the spot had an opportunity to mention other disciplines, but I didn't find it in any way insulting or marginalizing. When I watched the AAHPM spot there were multiple other videos highlighted on palliative care and hospice, including at least one that was exclusively about palliative nursing. Just as HPNA advocates for nurses, AAHPM advocates for physicians. Sure we work as a team, but we also have separate identities.

[spaire1]

@ctskas---I disagree, promoting one part of the team to the exclusion of the rest is rude.

And I would love to see AAHPM make a video "highlighting other team members"- which they haven't done. This was made as if they practice in a vacuum. Nice insult for all the rest of us on the team. Shame on them.

[spaire1]

Wow, I am amazed at the audacity of that video. It sickens me to think that ANYONE that works in PC believes that only the MD is able to provide that specialized care that our palliative TEAMS are so amazing at delivering. Just a simple change to the words "clinicians" and "teams" would have pulled us all together and elevated us, rightly so. But instead, I feel, once again, that an egocentric medicine has taken credit from what we have all worked so hard to build. Shame, shame, shame.

[drmoses99]

Even within an interdisciplinary team, the public will usually (always?) look to the physician for ultimate guidance and responsibility. Other physicians (surgeons?) when realizing their patient's symptoms will managed aggressively by a palliative medicine specialist are more likely to refer timely. If this get's patient's thinking that a physician (or team of physicians) will still ultimately be responsible to them they're more likely to take advantage of the entire team's services earlier.

[ctskas]

@Skipitedodah I agree too many specialization is not a great thing for medicine over the years. And I think the growth of palliative care is a response to that over-specialization. But specialization also brings some good with it including greater knowledge base in communication skills, pain and symptom management and care coordination.

[Skipitedodah]

Breaking palliative CARE into specialty focus is too much of the same thing that we have seen erode healthcare into a focus of parts instead of looking at the whole person. For along time physicians weren't on-board and resisted end of life care. It wasn't called palliative nursing or palliative social work then...it has always been palliative CARE. I don't think we are serving the greater good by making interdisciplinary care once again, multidisciplinary.

[nvanmeines]

Any activities promoting palliative care is a good thing. There isn't enough of it. No need for people to be territorial. Better to focus on the work to be done and the message rather than the messenger and the politics. The patient's and families don't care about who provides the care as long as it is quality, compassionate, comforting, specialist level care.