The Integrative Palliative Podcast Delia Chiaramonte, MD

Our internal judge has us judging ourselves, other people, and our circumstances. This makes practicing palliative care (and any patient care) harder and generates stress for us that we certainly don't need.This week you'll learn strategies for noticing your own judge and practical techniques for calming it, so you can enjoy your practice more, have less burnout, and be a happier person.Try it out and let me know how it goes!I'm glad you're here,DeliaDelia Chiaramonte, MDwww.integrativepallia...

Dr Gordon is a world-recognized authority and pioneer in mind-body medicine, and he is the founder and executive director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, DC.He is a Harvard educated psychiatrist and a clinical professor at Georgetown Medical School. He was chair of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy, and he has a recent book called Transforming Trauma: The Path to Hope and Healing.Dr. Gordon has created and implemented extraordinary...

Moral distress and moral injury are common in healthcare, yet few physicians, nurses or other clinicians talk about it on a regular basis.Stuffing the shame, guilt, anger and other powerful emotions that can accompany moral injury can lead to clinician burnout, compassion fatigue, depression or even suicide. And it can also result in excellent, empathetic clinicians leaving healthcare,Let's talk about it!DeliaDelia Chiaramonte, MDwww.integrativepalliative.comCoping Courageously: A Heart-Cente...

The term self-care has a bad rap lately. It can seem like healthcare organizations use terms like "self-care" and "resilience" to make their doctors, nurses, and other healthcare practitioners work harder and harder. They offer free yoga, while piling on more and more work!There is truth to this scenario, yet pushing away the concepts of self-care is not the solution.This week we cover 4 myths of clinician self-care. This episode is appropriate if you are a physician, nurse, nurse practitione...

Many clinicians, especially physicians, don't learn in school what to do when a patient is crying. When we don't know what to do we feel uncomfortable, and no one likes to feel uncomfortable.I've seen many physicians sit in the presence of a crying patient, continue to work on their computer, or awkwardly shift in their seat. This gives the patient the message that their tears and feelings aren't welcome.This week we talk about what to do when your patient starts crying.I'm glad you're here,D...

Is Joyful Palliative Care possible? Palliative care clinicians are often kind and highly empathetic people, but uncontrolled caring can lead to compassion fatigue or even burnout.Yet approaching the care of seriously ill people with an intentional approach can indeed make palliative care joyful.Here are the steps:1. More tools to relieve your patients' suffering (integrative symptom management)2. Develop your healing presence3. Know yourself4. Become a heart-centered leader5. Fill your cupI'm...