Oct 30, 2020

I am very excited to share my special guest's story on the podcast: Dr. Katie Deming, who practices radiation oncology in the Pacific Northwest. As a doctor treating female patients with breast and gynecological cancer with radiation, she makes deep connections with her cancer patients.  Listen to her story  as...

Oct 23, 2020

Patients with serious illness often want to know how much time they have left to live. It helps them plan. How to live the rest of their lives on their own terms. Do they want to keep coming back and forth to the hospital? Or do they want to spend the rest of their lives at home instead? We talk about prognosis...

Oct 16, 2020

We are sometimes asked by our patients about their prognosis. How much time do they have? While we may never know the exact answer to that question, we often have an estimate. Is it helpful to share that information with the patients? Can we assume that they actually want to know? In this episode, which is the first...

Oct 9, 2020

We often make assumptions about people. People often make assumptions about us. How do they make their assumptions? Are those right or wrong assumptions? Could it be because of how we live our lives? Is there a disconnect between what matters to us and how we live our day to day lives? Is it possible that if we lived...

Oct 2, 2020

Can you pause to learn what's most important even in the Emergency Room? My first guest is an ER physician who is also a board certified palliative care physician.  Dr. Kate Aberger tells us her story of how she came to practice medicine the best way she knows how. She tells us how you can always have a medical pause...