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Book SynopsisWhat''s in the Syringe? offers a succinct overview of the psychological skills of outpatient palliative care, teaching clinicians how to help patients live well and acknowledge end of life as patients meet five challenges of serious illness. It explores how to help patients develop prognostic awareness, through which they pair hopes and worries and see themselves with clarity and empathy. The book also teaches clinicians how to support patients'' coping skills. As patients use these skills, they improve their quality of life and deepen their prognostic awareness, helping them make informed medical and personal decisions as they approach end of life. Illustrated, case-based chapters are organized from diagnosis to end of life and draw on two decades of research and clinical experience. Each chapter describes how palliative care and oncology clinicians can collaborate and explains the interpretive role of the palliative care clinician in helping the patient and oncologist understand each other. What''s in the Syringe? is an essential resource for palliative care fellows, trainees, and clinicians, for oncologists, primary care clinicians, and medical students, and for all care providers working with patients facing serious illness.
Trade ReviewRecommended for a wide audience, the book features selected references as further reading for each chapter. * E. R. Paterson, Choice Connect *
The book is strengthened by its systematic approach to the incredibly personal, nuanced, and often difficult work that occurs in palliative care practice... this book is a powerful guide for any palliative care clinician who would benefit from an enhanced vocabulary to name what it is we do and the framework to outline how we do it, which is to say, almost every one of us. * Hannah Brown, Journal of Palliative Medicine *
This valuable guide brings clarity to the skills and techniques 'inside the syringe' that can support therapeutic relationships and adaptive coping in patients and families living with advanced cancer. The clinical wisdom and practical advice in this book have the potential to transform good intentions into the delivery of more effective and humanistic clinical care. * Gary Rodin, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Global Institute of Psychosocial, Palliative and End-of-Life Care (GIPPEC) *
I love this book. It puts in words and clear guidance what I have struggled to learn over 25 years of practice in palliative care—how to accompany our patients and our colleagues all the way through the long journey of a serious illness, and the healing power of our relationship, our presence, and our words in tempering the sting of loss. * Diane Meier, MD, Professor, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai *
Table of Contents1. Adapting to the Diagnosis 2. Pairing Hopes and Worries 3. Living Well with Serious Illness 4. Deepening Prognostic Awareness 5. Acknowledging End of Life
