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 → 3

Dyspnea6 → 2

Nausea4 → 1

Anxiety5 → 2

Appetite6 → 4

Wellbeing5 → 3

Symptoms, measured and treated

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