90 minute workshop to explore concepts and language that seem obvious and intuitive to professionals in the field of health care, but are often are interpreted, understood or perceived differently than intended by patients and caregivers.
3. KATHY KASTNER
• BestEndings.com – the only website for end of life education
developed by a patient/from patient’s point of view
• Author: Death Kills.. and other things I learned on the internet
• TEDtalk: Exit Laughing - on discovering palliative care
• Twitter Influencer: Journal of Medical Internet Research
• Stanford California: MedicineX ePatient Scholar; Patients 2.0
Presenter
• Patient-Advisor: Palliative and Supportive Care Steering Committees
• Published:
• Canadian Medical Association Journal
• Journal of Participatory Medicine
• Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) board member
• Managing Pain Video: Workshopped at STFM Conference
• Medication Safety Video: STFM Award Winner
• Journal of Palliative Medicine: Social Media Panelist
kathyk@bestendings.com
14. Famous (Extreme) Cases
Karen Ann Quinlan:
New Jersey 1976
Nancy Cruzan:
Missouri 1991
Terri Schiavo:
Florida 1998-2005
Hassan Rasouli:
Toronto 2010
kathyk@bestendings.com
15. Don’t want to be a vegetable
Don’t want to be a burden
Pull the plug
Let nature takes its course
kathyk@bestendings.com
19. OBJECTIVES
Teach-back: Establish goal of Advance Directives, as
perceived by patients and families 15 minutes
Self-Awareness: how to improve end of life conversations
30 minutes
Discussion: interpretation of content on forms, identifying
health literacy issues 30 minutes
kathyk@bestendings.com @kathykastner