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Palliative care

concept · in 9 sources (2018–2020)

Care that relieves the symptoms of patients who are never going to get better.

Sources by year: 2018: 7 · 2019: 1 · 2020: 1

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Molly Hunt (3) · NHS (2) · iPad (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2020

  • 2020-07-13 · What We Learnt In 2 Years of Being Doctors - Deep Dive with Molly Hunt — recommendation: Molly Hunt recommends With the End in Mind, a palliative care consultant's memoir, which she recently loved. — 00:24:29
    • Molly Hunt finds deaths that were not planned for or expected much harder to deal with than expected ones, and they can be quite unsettling. — 00:46:59
    • Molly Hunt is torn between paediatrics, palliative care, general medicine and general practice and still does not know what she wants to do. — 00:48:51

2019

2018

  • 2018-01-10 · Euthanasia - Medical Ethics and Law at the end of life — a guest: Doctors must give end-of-life patients enough drugs to keep them comfortable: letting patients die in distress and without dignity must not happen. — 00:09:25
    • Ali says the doctrine of double effect is now mostly theoretical: for the vast majority of palliative care patients, relieving suffering does not require shortening life. — 00:11:46
    • In an MMI where a patient asks to end his life, Ali would first explore the patient's concerns, then if pressed say he is bound by the law, and explain that palliative care is very good these days. — 00:16:22
  • 2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — Charlotte: Arguing against legalisation, Charlotte says palliative care focuses entirely on relieving symptoms, so with good palliative care ending someone's life to relieve their symptoms should not be necessary. — 00:18:03
    • Charlotte says palliative patients who months earlier wanted to die say that, given good palliative care, they are really happy to still be alive. — 00:18:03
  • 2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — Mr Justice Francis (quoted): Mr Justice Francis wrote that Charlie Gard's parents had accepted his life could not be improved and that the only remaining course was palliative care, letting him die with dignity. — 00:04:05
  • 2018-02-24 · Breaking Bad News / Death & Dying - Cambridge medical student VLOG #25 — Ali: From a palliative care consultant's lecture, Ali reports that oxygen does not help breathlessness at the end of life, against common belief, and non-drug approaches do. (hedged) — 00:06:41
    • Ali reports that drugs such as benzodiazepines are not that useful for breathlessness at the end of life; non-drug approaches make the difference. — 00:07:11
    • Palliative care at home works with Macmillan nurses, Marie Curie nurses, hospice workers, social care and hospice at home to keep dying patients comfortable. — 00:10:39
  • 2018-05-28 · Study with Me + How I take notes - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #36 — Ali: For palliative care, Ali and three friends each summarised one of four topics for about 15 minutes and then explained them to each other, crowdsourcing the knowledge in about a quarter of the time. — 00:04:32
  • 2018-08-19 · My first evening shift - Junior Doctor Vlog #01 — Ali: Nausea is arguably worse than pain, as one of the palliative care consultants once said: pain you can deal with, but nausea is debilitating. (hedged) — 00:09:26
    • Unsure how to help a tearful patient nauseous for five weeks, Ali phoned the palliative care specialist, who agreed he could not decide in ten minutes at night; he gave a sleeping tablet and some morphine and explained the antiemetic was for the morning team. — 00:12:02
  • …and 4 statements more in 2018 — all statements of 2018