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Facilitated by: Leslie Blackhall, MD

Price: $165.00

End of life is a developmental stage, which is experienced by all patients and requires a unique set of skills by their caregivers. However, those studying nursing, medicine and other allied professions are usually not taught how their patients die. The absence of this education leads to misunderstanding about the nature and goals of medical care, inability to communicate and increased suffering for clinicians, patients, and families. Additionally, our healthcare institutions are designed to care for patients with acute episodic illnesses and are geared toward their recovery. However, many patients have chronic progressive life-limiting illnesses and will not recover. In this workshop, we will discuss how our education and institutional systems fail in the care of patients at the end of life and explore ways we can improve and transform them.  Appropriate for all health care professionals.