Dr. Barnett is a palliative care physician who knows a thing or two about having empathetic conversations and delivering difficult news.

What’s inside this episode:

-How we in healthcare make assumptions about what a patient/family know and/or want to know
-How we minimize the impact of serious news
-How we answer feelings with facts
-How we focus on treatments rather than goals
-How we shirk our responsibility to offer recommendations when asked by patients/families
-How feeding difficulties are inherently emotional (more so than many other medical decisions)

Show notes can be downloaded below.

To learn more about the Medical SLP Collective, an exclusive community for Medical SLPs with new peer-reviewed resources, handouts, and videos distributed weekly, monthly ASHA CEU webinars, and a private forum on Facebook, or on the website to get answers to all of your burning clinical questions, check out MedSLPCollective.com

 

To share your thoughts:


– Share this episode on Facebook or Twitter

To help out the show:

– Leave a review on iTunes. Your comments help me immensely and I just might read it on the show!
– Contribute at patreon.com/swallowyourpride

Listen to more episodes