Risk Assessment• Identify subjects at high risk of problematic bereavement. • All providers caring for patients with terminal illness should carry out routine assessments of risk in the relatives of patients under their care. • Standardized instruments that are helpful in detecting high risk patients are as follows.
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Physician Assisted Death Training
In order to increase knowledge about how best to respond to and alleviate the suffering of seriously ill patients, we have created a free training module on Physician Assisted Death.
Dr. W. Richard Scott, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology, shares a very personal story of the last stages of life of his beloved brother Charles Scott.
Get Skilled: Cross Cultural Medicine
As medicine becomes more complex and specialized by the minute, the communication gulf between doctors and their patients is becoming progressively insurmountable.
Become skilled in providing culturally effective care:
- Download step by step guide to working with medical interpreters.
- Watch the microlecture series on Cross Cultural Medicine
PBS: Letter Project
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