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Posted by Caitlan Carroll on July 21, 2010 2:28 PM Today and yesterday on Marketplace, we ran a set of stories about end of life care. Yesterday, we looked at the economics of dying. Why is it so expensive? Do we get the care we want?

Today, we look specifically at palliative care. Palliative care is a relatively new specialty that’s gaining broader interest among the medical community. A lot of palliative care is geared toward people with terminal illnesses, but it can also be applied to those with chronic conditions. Palliative care helps people manage their symptoms and ease suffering. Connect with us To report the story, I spent time at a hospice and palliative care training institute in San Diego. I Get our headlines delivered to your followed the staff on rounds and sat in on their patient consults. I was struck by how they inbox. Sign up for our newsletters. functioned as a team on each case. Every specialist weighed in on the patient’s care. When we

met a patient named Carlos with terminal cancer, everyone from the spiritual counselor to Or follow us on: oncologist made recommendations for his treatment plan. There was even an aromatherapist in attendance who suggested Carlos apply scented lotion to his baby to encourage bonding. It was eye opening to see the level of creativity and compassion in the care that was delivered. Recent Entries

The other surprise for me was how upbeat everyone seemed. The director of the palliative Marketplace Half-Minute: See you next week! medicine fellowship program at the institute - Gary Buchholz - said my reaction is common. He Facebook teens ready to un-friend their parents said most people think his job is depressing and it’s often a conversation stopper. But he said, “When the patients feel better they start enjoying life and we focus on that. We focus on enjoying MID-DAY UPDATE: Stop reading your Facebook the life that they have and that feels really good.” at work Would you want a "families-only" section on If you have a story to tell or advice to offer, please, post a comment. And find more resources for airplanes? patients, families, and healthcare providers after the jump. MID-DAY UPDATE: Coffee cup problems

Advice from the experts I spoke with Rosemary Gibson, who wrote a great book called “The More ERs post wait times via text, online Treatment Trap,” which offers some advice to those planning end of life care. She also writes billboards about end-of-life-care at her blog. It walks through the variety of options available, and other tips MID-DAY UPDATE: Roadblocks and a traffic jam and advice, like who you should be involved or consulted in the planning process. I also spoke Apple patent targets 'jailbreakers' with kill switch, with Howard Gleckman, who wrote “Caring for Our Parents.” He also blogs here about the how does that make you feel? various issues family members deal with when a parent is ill . Pay with your phone, credit card rates going up

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Pal Med Connect: A palliative medicine resource hotline 1-877-PAL-MED4

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1 Response Tag Cloud MotherLodeBeth One thing I know is this. When someone is dying, knowing that you have told airlines, Apple, basketball, BP, bp oil July 22, 2010 1:09 PM them when they were healthy and so alive, that you loved them, appreciated them makes letting go easier. Have seen so many people over the years who spill, business of sports, China, coffee,

regretted not caring enough when their loved one was healthy, and then when credit cards, education, Facebook, Fannie sickness and death came along they wanted to keep the person alive, not for Mae, Federal Reserve, food and drink, the persons benefit but for their own selfish reasons. Freddie Mac, GM, Goldman Sachs,

So many American have made family a lesser priority, and then when a Google, Greece, housing, India, iPad, Kindle, family member gets sick or is dying they all of a sudden want things to go Marketplace Minute, mid-day update, back to before the sickness or death and do what they should have done to begin with. Obama, oil spill, retail, sports, technology

Prevention saves a great deal of money. When my husband died he knew he was loved.

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