Sunday, November 21, 2010
Facing Death Online Community Viewing
(Welcome to viewers of "Facing Death" from Frontline PBS from the Sunday Nov 21 Community Viewing) (Transcript embedded below)
If you found the discussions and topics in this show provocative and interesting and want to learn more about medical decision making and palliative care, here are a few suggested links from us here at Pallimed to some of the best material on the web. (You can also find some good links at the official PBS Frontline page also.)
Organizations (Twitter profiles)
-For health care professionals
- Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making
- The Center to Advance Palliative Care (ICU-PAL project) (@CAPCpalliative)
- American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (@AAHPM)
- National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (@NHPCO_news)
- Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
- Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network
- Center for Practical Bioethics
Organizations
-For the public
- Get Palliative Care (From CAPC)
- PalliativeDoctors.org (From the AAHPM)
- Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making
- Caring Conversations (From the Center for Practical Bioethics)
- My ICU Care (from the Society for Critical Care Medicine)
Excellent Palliative Care Blogs (Click here for a full list of updated hospice and palliative blogs)
- Pallimed (All ICU posts click here) (@pallimed)
- Pallimed: Arts and Humanities
- GeriPal (@Geripalblog)
- AAHPM Blog
- Medical Futility
Weekly Hospice and Palliative Medicine (#HPM) Tweetchat - Wednesday 9p ET
Key People in Palliative Care on Twitter
- @ctsinclair
- @hollyby
- @renee_berry
- @DianeEMeier
- @doclake
- @thaddeuspope
- @equijada
- @daitpcg
- @suzanakm
- @ewidera
- @abbrody
- @dspacl
- @GriefHealing
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