Rachna Goswami
@RachnaGoswamiMD
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Palliative Care @UTSWPalliative via @DukePallCare @BCM_InternalMed @NUFeinbergMed and @UMich. All opinions are my own. She/her.
Joined February 2012
New editorial by incoming @utswcancer @UTSWHemeOnc fellow @SLadhaniMD in @JCOOP_ASCO "The Stethoscope and the Chair: Optimizing Hospital Room Design to Enhance the Patient-Physician Relationship in Inpatient Oncology" @littlejonesmd @MonikaKumarMD
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Comparative effectiveness trial of early #palliative care delivered via telehealth versus in person among patients with advanced lung #cancer. https://t.co/j3NzUq5yCT
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@Areejmd @DrVickiJackson #PalliativeCare
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Some meds in hospital are ordered BID (9a, 5p) or TID (8a, 1p, 5p) when more appropriate may be q12 (9a, 9p) or q8 (e.g. 7a, 3p, 11p). Certainly true for antibiotics, cardiac meds etc, but can be important for symptomatic meds too. Example: still neuropathic pain at night:
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Glaucomflecken 2024 tour dates just dropped! Going head to head with the debut of Taylor Swift’s new album was my idea. I’m so smart. Get your tickets now!! https://t.co/3eFLi9xjpX
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Beyond Code Status | New England Journal of Medicine https://t.co/xrs7schZnc "Everyone dies. In medicine, we need to expand our definition of 'saving' to include doing our best to 'rescue from harm or danger' at the end of life as well."
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Despite being absolutely clear that she wanted a quick, painless end of life, a geriatrician’s elderly mother receives aggressive care. How can we ensure that such patient preferences are honored?
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Promoting empathy in medicine with #AI A thoughtful op-comic by @NathanAGray
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As my fellowship year is almost coming to an end, I reflect on all that I learned this year in palliative care. Here are 6 lessons I learned. 1. Patients do not belong to us. They belong to their families so we to have their buy in.
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Hospice care can be a powerful support, and there are heroes working for all types of hospice agencies. But I’m not sure I’ll ever feel comfortable with the idea of hospice for profit.#hapc #PalliativeCare In @latimes @latimesopinion
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Choosing the best hospice agency for a loved one's end-of-life care is complicated, but there are some clues that indicate quality.
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We have exciting news to share! UT Southwestern palliative medicine Advanced care provider fellowship is scheduled to start in October 2023! #hapc
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👀Are you a med student interested in #pallcare? Check out our 8-week *paid* summer internship in palliative care! Applications are open now! #hpm #medtwitter #hapc Learn more:
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Some of the most distressing scenarios for primary teams are when patients change their minds about important medical decisions to avoid disappointing their loved ones. Yet, there can be dignity and beauty in that sacrifice. Love this spot on perspective. @snakagawa_md #HPM
While they don't want to continue treatment by themselves, many patients decide to continue only because they don't want to disappoint their family. The suffering of disappointing the family could be more significant than the suffering of continuing. That happens. That's ok.
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👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 @DocJGay731 @mjhorstman for evaluating the evidence behind an important topic!
Great piece in @JHospMedicine - Things We Do for No Reason: Prescribing Appetite Stimulants to Hospitalized Older Adults w/Unintentional Weight loss ⭐️No proven benefit for improving long-term outcomes & in the case of megestrol acetate, may ⬆️mortality https://t.co/AuGEaxlNMX
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Female doctors make $2 million less over a 40-year career than their male counterparts, new research estimates. More men become surgeons and women have been shown to spend more time with their patients, leading to fewer services that can be billed for. https://t.co/Ra0Xf91AQQ
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