Nov 30, 2023
In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks
with Laura Petrillo, MD, about navigating patients
through changes and goals in palliative care, understanding
patients living with and surviving advanced cancer and more.
• Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology
Overdrive :58
• About Petrillo 1:03
• The interview 1:40
• How did you find yourself in medicine, specifically
in palliative care and geriatrics?
2:04
• How has the evolution of cancer care and technology
impacted the way you engage and deliver palliative care?
6:46
• Jain and Petrillo on the effect changes in
palliative care can have on patients.
12:47
• How do you communicate the distinctions between
palliative care and hospice care to patients and physicians?
17:19
• Do you think that there are ways for people outside
of palliative care can incorporate intentional communication with
patients in their care? … When should you refer someone to
palliative care? 23:45
• Petrillo and Jain on advanced cancer survivorship
and living with advanced cancer.
30:54
• Jain and Reynolds on the progress made in this space
and the road ahead. 29:43
• If someone could only listen to the last two minutes
of this episode, what would you want them to take away?
36:41
• How to contact Petrillo
38:30
• Thanks for listening
38:58
Laura Petrillo, MD, is a palliative care physician-investigator in the Division of Palliative Care and Geriatrics at MGH and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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Disclosures: Jain and Petrillo report no
relevant financial disclosures.