For Healthcare Practitioner(videos)

“Palliative care is an approach which recognizes , first of all, that the unit of care is not only the patient but the family or the loved ones around the patient and secondly that aims to alleviate total pain”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7p9WyakORY&feature=youtu.be Dr. Leena Gangoli is a geriatric palliative care specialist who helps us understand palliative care where not only are the needs of the patient addressed but also the patient’s family and loved ones. This holistic approach aims to ease all Read More

“Death is a part of life….we must add life to days, not days to life”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyJTf7Y5lak&feature=youtu.be When informing a patient about an illness, doctors are expected to be honest, accurate and optimistic. This can be a tough combination, so conveying bad news in a systematic and sensitive way is crucial to avoid wrong expectations from the patient. Openness is something Dr Roop firmly believes in.  He insists that his patients must always be told the truth of their disease/illness in a Read More

“We need responsible, compassionate doctors who can hand hold them….keep the human being comfortable.”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aViJJJsNbRI Apart from being a doctor where she engages with caregivers, Dr Rajam Iyer has also been a caregiver to her own parents. While being a caregiver to her parents, watching them interact with doctors, she realized how a doctor can change the life of a patient.  A doctor’s language, tone or body posture can make the patient/caregiver feel less burdened with their situation. She realized that Read More

“My inner doctor told me….That hug was what your patient needed, in that moment we met”  Martina is a family doctor who loves her job and patients. Being a doctor herself, Martina feels that not enough importance is given to non verbal communication like touch(physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually), in healthcare.  As a child, Martina often visited patients in a hospice and once held an old lady’s hand while she died and later, as a medical student, she met a family Read More