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The Integrative Palliative Podcast
Hosted by integrative palliative medicine physician, Dr. Delia Chiaramonte, The Integrative Palliative Podcast helps physicians and clinicians guide families facing serious illness to physical and emotional wellbeing. Listeners will find insights, skills and knowledge in evidence-supported integrative symptom management, as well as attention to their own self-care, because you can't pour from an empty cup!
Everyone who cares for seriously ill people will find something for themselves and their patients in this podcast. It is targeted not only to those who practice palliative care, but also to physicians and clinicians in oncology, radiation oncology, neurology, geriatrics, rheumatology, hospital medicine, intensive care, and more.
While the podcast is targeted to those who care for patients and clients, family caregivers will find many pearls to help them care for their ill or aging and loved one, while also caring for themself. All are welcome!
Visit The Institute for Integrative Palliative Medicine for more information on clinician and caregiver trainings and to book Dr. Chiaramonte as a speaker www.integrativepalliative.com
Episodes
140 episodes
Coping When Faced with Deeply Upsetting Circumstances
We've just had a big election and many people have strong feelings about the result. Some people are happy about the outcome, and others are feeling deeply distressed.In palliative care we are experts at helping people cope with highly ...
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Season 3
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Episode 140
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11:34
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The Basics of Gender Affirming Care: A Primer for Physicians and Clinicians
Can you define cisgender? Transgender? Intersex? Gender non-conforming?Do you know the difference between sex and gender? Have you heard of a 'dead name?'Do you know why using "Sir" and "Ma'am" can cause you to be inadvertently ...
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Season 3
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Episode 139
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29:26
Supporting Blind Patients: From 'Pity Party' to 'Propel Party' with Sarah Freeman Smith
Sarah Freeman Smith is a blind inspirational speaker and author, former HR/recruiting leader and disability advocate. She went blind in midlife and in this week's episode of The Integrative Palliative Podcast she shares her journey, the tech th...
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Season 3
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Episode 137
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40:59
Eco-Friendly End-of-Life Options: Green Burials and Beyond
Many patients are embalmed or cremated after death, but this isn't the only option. Embalming and cremation have a negative impact on the environment, and other, more eco-friendly, options are becoming popular.Options such as green buri...
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Season 3
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Episode 138
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19:36
White Coat Crossroads: An Interview with Physician Career Coach Heather Fork, MD
Many physicians, and other clinicians, are wiped out and burned out. They may wonder if they should stay in medicine, or if there is another path that would make them happier.Yet running away from unhappiness isn't a great strategy beca...
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Season 3
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Episode 136
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42:26
Handling Angry Patients Without Losing Your Cool
Sometimes patients or family members express their stress with anger. And when the anger is directed your way you may get defensive or annoyed and it can put a pall on your day.Listen to this week's episode for clear guidance about what...
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Season 3
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Episode 135
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19:40
Emotional Needs of the Dying: Four Key Concepts to Discuss with Your Patients
Don't be afraid to talk about dying.We don't learn to talk about dying and so many people are afraid because they don't know what to say. Here are four key topics to bring up with people who have advanced illness such as progressive met...
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Season 3
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Episode 134
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14:31
Mental Status Change in Hospice Patients: What to Do and Not to Do
Mental status changes in hospice patients are extremely common. Yet are they always due to disease progression?If a patient suddenly gets confused or sleeps all day, what should you do? Should you counsel the family that this is normal?...
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Season 3
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Episode 133
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12:24
When Patients with Cancer Pain Won't Take Opioids: 30 Reasons Why and What to Do About It
Your patient is in terrible pain from cancer and you have the tools to relieve it. Yet they won't take the oxycontin or morphine that you prescribed. You can see that they are suffering yet you feel powerless to help. This is a com...
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Season 3
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Episode 132
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32:42
Ketamine: What It Is, Who Should Use It, And How the Palliative Population is Different
Ketamine is in the news right now because Matthew Perry died from improper use of ketamine and his physicians just got arrested for making that possible.It is always a bit shocking when physicians get arrested for prescribing medication...
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Season 3
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Episode 131
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11:37
Dealing with Uncertainty in Health and Life: 4 Dos and 4 Don'ts
We live in a soup of uncertainty and so do our patients and clients. Caring for patients with serious illnesses such as cancer or Alzheimers dementia can be extremely stressful because the experience is filled with uncertainty.Having a ...
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Season 3
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Episode 130
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13:43
LovingKindness Meditation: An Experiential Episode to Feed Your Soul
The LovingKindness, or Metta, meditation (not a typo - that's how it is spelled) is one of my favorite meditations. It offers kindness and healing to you, the people in your life and the world.This week I offer you a LovingKindness medi...
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Season 3
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Episode 129
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10:58
Leave Your Heirs the Gift of Organization: How Adam Zuckerman's "Buried in Work" Simplifies Estate & End-of Life Planning
Leave your heirs the gift of organization. Estate planning is crucial but many people put it off because they aren't sure how to proceed.Adam Zuckerman is an attorney and entrepreneur who created a company, Buried in Work, after l...
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Season 3
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Episode 128
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42:05
Dealing with Challenging Patients: The Power of Empathy Plus Boundaries
We've all had challenging patient or client interactions. It can be hard to know how to handle them and it can make us feel lousy or even derail our day.You want to be an empathetic physician, nurse, therapist, PA or other clinician but...
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Season 3
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Episode 127
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19:20
The Less Stress Doc: An Interview with Dr. Gary Sprouse
Dr. Gary Sprouse is the Less Stress Doc. He is a family physician with expertise in stress management and he's the author of Highway to Your Happy Place: A Roadmap to Less Stress.This week Dr. Sprouse shares tools and insights to help y...
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Season 3
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Episode 126
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37:57
Caring for a Challenging Loved One: 3 Questions and 3 Truths
Caring for a loved one who is aging or ill is hard. It is especially hard if you've had a challenging relationship with them. If you had a difficult childhood and now find yourself caring for a parent with cancer, a stroke, or Alzheimer's demen...
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Season 3
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Episode 125
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11:21
A Rational Approach to Chiropractic Care: Guidance from Brian Morrison, DC
Chiropractic care is widely misunderstood by the medical community. In this interesting interview, chiropractor Brian Morrison clues us in to how we got here and the ways in which chiropractic education and clinical care have changed for the be...
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Season 3
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Episode 124
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49:15
Your Internal Judge Makes Practicing Medicine (and Everything Else) Harder
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 strate...
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Season 3
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Episode 123
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16:07
The Power of Mind-Body Medicine: An Interview with James Gordon MD, Founder of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine
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 profess...
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Season 3
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Episode 122
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46:11
Moral Distress, Moral Injury, and Humanity in Healthcare
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 l...
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Season 3
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Episode 121
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18:53
Don't Blame The Victim: 4 Myths of Clinician Self-Care
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 120
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13:47
How to Handle it When Your Patient is Crying
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 119
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12:12
Joyful Palliative Care
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 ...
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Season 3
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Episode 118
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22:41
2024 International Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health: 8 Key Takeaways
The 2024 Integrative Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health was held recently in Cleveland and there were so many wonderful sessions. I attended and have picked out 8 key learnings to share with you.The 8 topics are:1. Micr...
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Season 3
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Episode 117
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15:07
Using Negotiation Skills to Communicate Effectively with Patients
Effective doctor-patient communication is crucial for effective patient care. Yet effective communication is challenging when visits are time pressured, and both clinicians and patients are often stressed.Using the tools of negotiation ...
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Season 3
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Episode 116
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13:57