28 episodes

The Surgical Palliative Care Podcast features interviews with the founders and the leaders of the surgical palliative care community, a diverse group of surgeons, dedicated to providing high quality palliative medicine to all surgical and trauma patients. Tune in to learn the rich history of the surgical palliative care movement as well as to stay up to date on the latest research in the field. Hosted by Dr. Red Hoffman, the Surgical Palliative Care Podcast aims to educate, foster community and provide mentorship to all those interested in making certain that surgical and trauma patients receive the excellent palliative care that they deserve. Subscribe to stay up to date on the latest episodes. 

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The Surgical Palliative Care Podcast features interviews with the founders and the leaders of the surgical palliative care community, a diverse group of surgeons, dedicated to providing high quality palliative medicine to all surgical and trauma patients. Tune in to learn the rich history of the surgical palliative care movement as well as to stay up to date on the latest research in the field. Hosted by Dr. Red Hoffman, the Surgical Palliative Care Podcast aims to educate, foster community and provide mentorship to all those interested in making certain that surgical and trauma patients receive the excellent palliative care that they deserve. Subscribe to stay up to date on the latest episodes. 

    Andy Baxter: Founder of Cuniff-Dixon Foundation

    Andy Baxter: Founder of Cuniff-Dixon Foundation

    #028 - Join host Dr. Red Hoffman as she interviews Andy Baxter, the founder of the Cunniff-Dixon Foundation.  The Foundation is named in honor of Andy's wife, Carley, who died of breast cancer in 2005, as well as in honor of her physician, Dr. Peter S. Dixon.  The mission of the Cunniff-Dixon Foundation is to enrich the Doctor-Patient relationship near the end of life by fostering human development in medicine and supporting and funding projects relating to Palliative Care.
     
    In 2009, along with the American College of Surgeons, the Foundation produced Surgical Palliative Care: A Resident's Guide.  For many years, this was the only readily available resource available for surgeons who were interested in learning how to integrate palliative medicine into the care of surgical patients.  The Foundation's latest project, Planning Way My, is a free resource created to help guide people through their Advance Care Planning journey.
     
     To learn more about the Cunniff-Dixon Foundation click here.

    To read Surgical Palliative Care: A Resident's Guide click here.

    To learn more about Planning My Way click here.

    To learn more about the recently launched Surgical Palliative Care Society, visit the website at  www.spcsociety.org or twitter @spcsociety.

    To learn more about the surgical palliative care community, visit twitter @surgpallcare

    To learn more about host Red Hoffman, visit her website www.redhoffmanmd.com or twitter @redmdnd.

    • 48 min
    Dr. Jody Stern: Grief Connects Us

    Dr. Jody Stern: Grief Connects Us

    #027 - Join host Dr. Red Hoffman as she interviews neurosurgeon and writer Dr. Jody Stern.   Jody discusses his recently released book, Grief Connects Us, which was inspired by his sister Victoria's illness and death from leukemia as well as his brother in law Pat's death from a ruptured aneurysm.   Jody speaks candidly about how these experiences changed him as both a person and as a surgeon.  He reflects upon the importance of emotional agility and the challenges of practicing as a surgeon while maintaining an open heart.  However, he also notes that "if a neurosurgeon can do it, anyone can!" 
     
    Jody's essays in the New York Times:
    Grief As My Guide:  How My Sister Made Me a Better Doctor
    Moral Distress in Neurosurgery
    Dying in the Neurosurgical ICU

    To purchase Grief Connects Us:  A Neurosurgeon's on Love, Loss and Compassion, go here.

    To purchase Emotional Agility by Susan David, click here.

    To learn more about the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, click here.

    To learn more about the recently launched Surgical Palliative Care Society, visit the website at  www.spcsociety.org or twitter @spcsociety.

    To learn more about the surgical palliative care community, visit twitter @surgpallcare

    To learn more about host Red Hoffman, visit her website www.redhoffmanmd.com or twitter @redmdnd.

    • 45 min
    Dr. Balfour Mount: Ten Thousand Crossroads

    Dr. Balfour Mount: Ten Thousand Crossroads

    #026 - Join host Dr. Red Hoffman as she once again has the privilege of interviewing Dr. Balfour Mount, the founder of Palliative Medicine.  Bal recently released his 500-page memoir entitled Ten Thousand Crossroads:  The Path as I Remember It and he generously returns to the show to  talk about his book.  He discusses his friendships with both Dame Cicely Saunders and Elizabeth Kubler Ross and shares lessons he learned from both women.  He also reflects upon the many lessons he learned from his patients and  how his own journey with multiple cancers influenced his practice of medicine throughout his career.

    Bal is a cultural icon and it is a pure pleasure to sit back and listen to him reflect upon his life and his career.   I cannot recommend his book highly enough; besides stories about Dame Cicely Saunders and Elizabeth Kubler Ross, he also includes memories about meeting Viktor Frankl and the Dalai Lama, as well as a funny phone call with Mother Teresa. 

    To purchase Ten Thousand Crossroads:  The Path as I Remember It, go here.

    To learn more about the recently launched Surgical Palliative Care Society, visit the website at  www.spcsociety.org or twitter @spcsociety.

    To learn more about the surgical palliative care community, visit twitter @surgpallcare

    To learn more about host Red Hoffman, visit her website www.redhoffmanmd.com or twitter @redmdnd.

    • 38 min
    Introducing The Surgical Palliative Care Society (SPCS)

    Introducing The Surgical Palliative Care Society (SPCS)

    #025 - Join host Dr. Red Hoffman as she interviews Drs. Buddy Marterre and Pringl Miller, whom - along with Red - founded the recently launched Surgical Palliative Care Society (SPCS), the first inter-disciplinary society dedicated to the integration of high quality palliative medicine into the care of surgical patients.  They discuss the origins of the society, review its mission and talk about how Buddy's work as a beekeeper inspired the non-hierarchical approach to the creation of our Council and Committees.

    Membership is open to all healthcare professionals involved in the care of surgical patients (including surgeons, physicians, nurses, advanced practice providers, social workers, chaplains and respiratory therapists) as well as to students and trainees.  Please visit the website and consider joining as an inaugural member (inaugural dues are half-price through the end of 2021.)

    To learn more about the Surgical Palliative Care Society, visit the website at  www.spcsociety.org or twitter @spcsociety. 

    To learn more about the surgical palliative care community, visit us on twitter @surgpallcare

    To learn more about host Red Hoffman, visit her website www.redhoffmanmd.com or twitter @redmdnd.

    • 34 min
    Dr. Pat Murphy: Surgical Palliative Care Nurse Researcher

    Dr. Pat Murphy: Surgical Palliative Care Nurse Researcher

    #024 - Join host Dr. Red Hoffman as she interviews Dr. Patricia Murphy.   Pat is a nurse and is recently retired as the Clinical Clinical Ethicist at University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey. She is an associate professor in the Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School Department of Surgery and served as a member of the New Jersey Bioethics Commission, the multidisciplinary body that developed the Advance Directive and Brain Death legislation in New Jersey.  She is responsible for teacher generations of medical students, residents and attendings how to care for patients and families during the most difficult times of their lives.   In this episode, Pat shares how her time with Dr. Elizabeth Kubler Ross as well as her time in the Faculty Scholars Program of the Project on Death in American shaped her career in palliative care.  She discusses her decades of work in the Department of Surgery at Rutgers NJ Medical School, where she worked closely with Dr. Anne Mosenthal to study the integration of palliative medicine into the care of trauma patients.   Pat gives tips on how to deliver bad news and how best to code status and goals of care with patients and families.   Lastly, she discusses the importance of communication amongst team members and reminds us to listen to our nurses!

    To read more about the work of Pat Murphy and Anne Mosenthal click here.

    To hear the story about how Pat influenced the career of Dr. Jessica Zitter watch here.

    To learn more about the surgical palliative care community, visit us on twitter @surgpallcare

    To learn more about host Red Hoffman, visit her website www.redhoffmanmd.com.

    • 39 min
    Dr. Mary Lynn McPherson: Palliative Care Pharmacist Extraordinaire

    Dr. Mary Lynn McPherson: Palliative Care Pharmacist Extraordinaire

    #023 - Join host Dr. Red Hoffman as she interviews pharmacist Dr. Mary Lynn McPherson, Professor and Executive Director of the Advanced Post-Graduate Education in Palliative Care in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science at the University of Maryland,  Program Director of the Online Master of Science and Graduate Certificates in Palliative Care (also at University of Maryland), host of the Palliative Care Chat Podcast and author of the very well-known book  Demystifying Opioid Conversion Calculations: A Guide for Effective Dosing.  Lynn is a well-known speaker and a respected educator and was named as a 2018 Visionary in Hospice and Palliative Medicine by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.   Lynn discusses the role of the pharmacist on the interdisciplinary palliative care team, including the very important role of de-prescribing medications.  She then offers a step-wise approach to the treatment of common symptoms such as nausea, constipation
    (spoiler alert- we are using way too much zofran and docusate!), delirium and pain.  Lastly, she answers some of Red's burning questions about tylenol, toradol, transdermal delivery systems and buprenorphine.  Lynn is consistently one of the most most sought-after speakers at the AAHPM Annual Assembly and it is incredible to have the opportunity to learn from her! 

    To find a copy of Demystifying Opioid Conversion Calculations click here.

    To listen to the Palliative Care Chat Podcast click here.

    To learn more about the University of Maryland Online Master of Science and Graduate Certificates in Palliative Care click here.

    To learn more about the surgical palliative care community, visit us on twitter @surgpallcare

    To learn more about host Red Hoffman, visit her website www.redhoffmanmd.com.

    • 45 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
27 Ratings

27 Ratings

lah5013 ,

A pearl in every episode

Dr. Hoffman is a consistently excellent interviewer, who has thus far invited to her podcast a diverse array of guests from all realms of surgery and medicine. Each episode contains at least one pearl with broad clinical implications, in addition to excellent advice for young surgeons, palliative care physicians, and hopeful academicians. I’m a huge fan and will continue to listen with excitement for what’s to come from this great series.

BrummbarBoy ,

Wonderful and insightful!!

Dr. Hoffman is taking the surgical palliative world by storm. Her compassion, dedication and all around demeanor is pure joy to witness and listen to. I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing her bedside manner, while she is the consummate professional, her love for what she does and who her patients are shines above all. Thank for finally giving is this podcast.

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