Palliative Care: Quality of Life… Not End of Life

Fit As A Fiddle · Apr 8, 2021 · 24m

Boy did I learn a lot on this show! First thing that came to my mind when I thought “Palliative Care” was hospice and the end-stage of life. Today, Ramya Sampath, physician-in-training at The University Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, taught me that it is so much more than that! Palliative care is a comprehensive model of patient-centered medicine that takes into consideration many factors of a patient’s well being such as their overall health, socioeconomic status, access to medications, cultural background, and more. It’s not just keeping someone comfortable at the end of their…