You Don't Need To Be Dying To Have It

AUSTIN, Texas - Oct. 12, 2015 - PRLog -- There is still so much misunderstanding about Palliative Care in and outside of Healthcare. There are educational videos I have found on the internet and definitions about Palliative Care that are flat out wrong.

What is wrong: they are saying that palliative care is what you use at the end of life.

Please understand that you do not have to be dying to receive Palliative Care. It is treatment and medicine that you may have from day 1 of diagnosis with a serious illness. It should be part of your treatment plan along with the treatments they will use to try and cure your illness. There should be a plan to proactively deal with any symptoms from your illness or the medications or treatments you are taking to cure your illness.

In our attempts to live longer, we are definitely making choices sometimes that will compromise our bodies. Sometimes our bodies can easily handle the impact with minor palliative treatments. Sometimes though, we need to bring in expert symptom management from physicians and nurses specially trained. It is not a simple matter of a little morphine here or anti-nausea medicine there. If you are suffering, it is because you need a more expert palliative team. Period.

Palliative Care works. It is complicated sometimes to get the relief from suffering. This podcast's mission is to make it very clear that Palliative Care should be utilized from the day of diagnosis and if you are still suffering, you need a better trained palliative team.

This week's podcast: http://journeypodcast.com/you-dont-have-to-be-dying-to-ge...

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