Palliative Physician Dr. Tim Shares From the Heart

AUSTIN, Texas - June 9, 2015 - PRLog -- What is the heartbeat of Palliative Care? Is it its most excellent diagnostic capabilities? Is it that it provides innovative care to people during serious illness in an extremely effective way?

To me the core of palliative care is why it was created--to address the whole person and that person's relationship to themselves, their family and their community. In palliative medicine, the reason we are doing all this is because we are looking at the person, not just their disease. We are looking at what is meaningful to them. We are asking the questions: what do you want now? what is important to you? what do you need?

Palliative care is about heart; it's Western Medicine's best holistic approach to a human being. Dr. Tim captures so beautifully why we are all doing this work in the palliative movement.

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Dr. Timothy Ihrig is Medical Director of Palliative Care at the Trinity Regional Medical Center within the Unity Point Heath System. Trinity Regional is a Pioneer Accountable Care Organization through the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. He is a member of the Board of Governance of Unity Point Health Accountable Care Organization. Dr. Ihrig is the Director of Ihrig MD & Associates and Medhava Media whose focus is innovation in the space of advancing palliative care through the development of resources for implementing palliative care best practices, creating educational tools, reference materials and interactive mobile applications rooted in evidence based medicine and real world clinical success / program development.