Palliative Medicine

Symptom control, goals of care, and serious-illness conversations.

Presentations

Breathless, and done with hospitals

A 69-year-old with advanced lung cancer is admitted, again, gasping, and asks you to make it stop.

Medications

Pain7 to 3

Dyspnea6 to 2

Nausea4 to 1

Anxiety5 to 2

Appetite6 to 4

Wellbeing5 to 3

Symptoms, measured and treated

An ESAS-style before-and-after: symptom scores are vital signs in palliative care.