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🗓️ 15 June 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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0:00.0 | I was speaking with both of the daughters in the midst of this family meeting. |
0:04.1 | If your choice is to decide a plan of care that ultimately leads to a lesser time to be with |
0:11.6 | your mom, a shortened life, but that we were going to minimize her suffering that we weren't going to hasten death |
0:17.3 | But we were going to minimize her suffering then I think it's a holy choice for us to pursue and that's what really guided them to make her |
0:26.0 | comfort care. |
0:28.3 | A holy choice. |
0:30.5 | Wow. |
0:31.9 | Not something I would ever consider saying in a family meeting, but coming from a Presbyterian |
0:35.8 | minister, those are some pretty powerful words. |
0:38.6 | And those are the words of Reverend Ariel Flores, a chaplain with the UCLA Palliative Care Program in Los Angeles. |
0:44.3 | He's here with us today to discuss the role of spirituality and religion and health care. |
0:48.8 | We'll start off by defining what spirituality is, how it differs from religion, why it's so important, and how we can support it as |
0:55.2 | clinicians. |
0:56.2 | We'll discuss screening tools, the role of chaplaincy, and some stories about the impact |
1:00.0 | that can have on clinical care. |
1:02.2 | Welcome back to At the Bedside. |
1:04.0 | I'm Joffer. |
1:05.0 | I'm Tamar, and I'm Margo. |
1:06.0 | We're grateful to be joined today by one of the legends in the field of spirituality |
1:10.0 | and health care, Dr. Christina Piccalski. |
1:12.0 | She's an internist and professor of |
1:14.1 | medicine at George Washington and is the director and founder of George |
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