The document lists the titles and speakers for Schwartz Rounds held at Baystate Medical Center from 2004 to 2013. Some common themes included in many of the round titles are breaking bad news, caring for difficult patients and families, medical errors, end of life care, and maintaining compassion in challenging situations. The rounds aimed to discuss compassionate care and the human side of healthcare work.

1. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2004
May 10, 2004
“Breaking Bad News to Patients”
-Martin Broder, MD
July 19, 2004
“Challenges and Pitfalls of Caring for Health Professionals and/or Their
Families”
-Martin Broder, MD
September 23, 2004
“Good Deaths for Children”
-Martin Broder, MD
November 8, 2004
“Initiating Life Support”
-Martin Broder, MD

2. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2005
January 3, 2005
“Decision-Making in the Face of Uncertainty”
-Tom Campfield, MD
February 14, 2005
“When Culture, Language, and Family Frustrate Decision-Making”
-Wilson Mertens, MD, Shamshad Sheikh – Chaplain to Mount Holyoke College,
Aida Mansoor – from Hartford Seminary – Muslim Educator
March 28, 2005
“Medical Errors”
-Maura Brennan, MD; Jim Frank, MD; Evan Benjamin, MD
April 11, 2005
“Keeping Cool Under Fire: Dealing With Angry Families”
-Martin I. Broder, MD

3. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2005
May 9, 2005
“Ethical Issues Concerning Transplantation Organs From An Anencephalic
Fetus”
-Martin Broder, MD
June 6, 2005
“Beyond the White Coat and Johnnie: What Makes for a Compassionate
Patient-Caregiver Relationship”
-Martin Broder, MD
August 15, 2005
“International Perspectives on Teamwork, Communications, and Decision-
Making in Health Care”
-Martin Broder, MD

4. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2005
September 12, 2005
“Challenges in Contemporary HIV Care”
-Martin I. Broder, MD
October 24, 2005
“Caring for Sickle Cell Patients: More Than Pain Medicine”
-Martin I. Broder, MD
November 21, 2005
“The Challenge of Caring for Those Who Harm Others”
-Martin I. Broder, MD
December 19, 2005
“Trainees on the Care Team and Patients’ Fears”
-Martin I. Broder, MD

5. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2006
January 30, 2006
“If your heart stops, should we restart it? – How to Discuss CPR”
-Martin Broder, MD
February 27, 2006
“Double Trouble – Who’s In Charge Here?”
-Martin Broder, MD
March 27, 2006
“Caring for the Obese – Are there Special Challenges?”
-Martin Broder, MD
April 24, 2006
“Focus in the Midst of Chaos: Challenges in a Busy ED”
-Maura Brennan, MD and Dr. David Ling

6. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2006
May 8, 2006
“When Illness is in the Family: When Caregivers and Families are Patients”
-Martin Broder, MD
June 5, 2006
“Grieving After Death – Does It Ever End?”
-Martin Broder, MD
July 17, 2006
“The Other End of the Stethoscope – A Doctor Living with an Incurable Disease”
-Martin Broder, MD
August 14, 2006
“The Exhausting Family Member – How to Survive”
-Martin Broder, MD

7. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2006
October 23, 2006
“Laughter – The Best Medicine”
-Martin Broder, MD
November 6, 2006
“Competency – Does it Help or Hurt Patient Care?”
December 4, 2006
“The Spiritual Dimension in Patient Care – What are the Challenges?”

8. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2007
January 29, 2007
“Sexuality and Aging: Medical, Social and Ethical Considerations”
February 26, 2007
“The Difficult Patient-Providing Care, Coping and Setting Boundaries”
March 26, 2007
Living with the Disabilities of a Child: Challenges and Blessings for the Family
and the Caregivers”
April 23, 2007
“The ‘Isolated’ Foreigner-Coordinating Complex Care Between Continents”
May 21, 2007
“Are We Ever Ready When One of our Own Dies?”
June 18, 2007
“Chronic Disease and a Patient’s Search for Meaning”

9. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2007
July 16, 2007
“When Things go Wrong: What do Patients Expect?”
October 22, 2007
“Make Way for New Ducklings”
November 19, 2007
“The Impact of Suicide on Caregivers and Families”
December 17, 2007
“The Maternal-Fetal Conflict”

10. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2008
January 14, 2008
“Hospitalists, Continuity, and Compassion”
-Martin I. Broder, MD
February 11, 2008
“Compassion Fatigue – When Caregivers Get Tired of Caring”
-Randolph Peto, MD
March 10, 2008
“She’ll Always Be Her Mother…”
-Martin Broder, MD
April 14, 2008
“I Want It All”
-Martin Broder, MD

11. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2008
May 12, 2008
“No Greater Gift”
-Martin Broder, MD
June 16, 2008
“Who’s in Charge Here?”
-Martin Broder, MD
July 14, 2008
“Rites of Passage; Helping New Caregivers as They Begin Their Training”
-Martin Broder, MD
August 14, 2008
“Support at the Sharp End of Medical Error”
-Randolph Peto, MD

12. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2008
September 15, 2008
“Is Compassionate Care Different for Patients with Dementia and Their
Families?”
-Martin Broder, MD
October 20, 2008
“Compassionate Care and Ethics”
-John O’Reilly, MD
November 10, 2008
“Hello. I am your patient’s wife, and would like to join your rounds…”
-Maura Brennan, MD and Paul Jodka, MD
December 8, 2008
“Gratitude”
-Randolph Peto, MD

13. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2009
January 12, 2009
Self-disclosure: compassionate connection or self-indulgence?”
-Maura Brennan, MD
February 9, 2009
“Compassionate Care and Pediatric HIV”
-John O’Reilly, MD
March 9, 2009
“…but how can we let him/her starve or die of thirst?”
-Maura Brennan, MD
April 13, 2009
“Guilt, the Gift that Keeps on Giving”
-Randolph Peto, MD

14. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2009
May 11, 2009
“Family-centered Rounding; Encouraging Children and Families to be Members
of their Health Care Team”
-John O’Reilly, MD
June 8, 2009
“Diagnosis Brain Death; How long do we keep this child on life support?”
-John O’Reilly, MD
July 13, 2009
“When Religious Advice Shifts Goals of Care”
-Maura Brennan, MD
August 10, 2009
“Rites of Passage – Are Patients, New Nurses, & New Residents treated
compassionately in July?”
-Randolph Peto, MD

15. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2009
September 14, 2009
“When there is nowhere else to go”
-John O’Reilly, MD
October 19, 2009
“The Power of Stories in Compassionate Care”
-Ute Schmidt, Chaplain
November 9, 2009
“The Long and Winding Road . . . When a Dying Child Lingers”
-John O’Reilly, MD
December 14, 2009
“Full Code or Futile Code? A Hospice Patient Requests Resuscitation Despite
Metastatic Lung Cancer”
-Maura Brennan, MD

16. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2010
January 11, 2010
“It’s more than Words: Interpreter Services as Partners in Culturally Informed
Care”
-John O’Reilly, MD
February 8, 2010
Special Valentine’s Week Topic:
“Work/Life Balance: Can you deliver compassionate care to both your patients
and your spouse/family?”
-Randolph Peto, MD
March 8, 2010
“Compassionate Care for the Uninsured”
-Jackson H. Williams, MD

17. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2010
April 12, 2010
“Caring for grieving families – Compassion lies in the details!”
-Ute Schmidt, Manager of Spiritual Services and Interfaith Chaplain
May 10, 2010
“When patients threaten the caregiver – limits of compassionate care?”
-John O’Reilly, M.D.
June 14, 2010
“Taking Schwartz Rounds to the Next Level: Looking Back and Leaping
Forward"
Jackson Williams, MD and Joyce Smith, LICSW
July 12, 2010
“CPR Discussions in Advanced Illness; Many Teams, Many Levels of Training,
Many Viewpoints, Many Challenges"
-Maura Brennan, MD

18. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2010
August 9, 2010
“Patient Power”
-John O’Reilly, MD
September 13, 2010
“Defying the Odds: Courage, Hope, Music and the Will to Survive”
-Joyce Smith, LICSW
October 4, 2010
“The Pains of Managing Pain”
-Michael Picchioni, MD
November 8, 2010
“Passing the Torch; Fostering Compassionate Care by New Trainees”
-Randy Peto, MD

19. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2010
December 13, 2010
“Follow Your Heart; an Approach to Organ Donation”
Sponsored by the Baystate Medical Reader’s Theater
-John O’Reilly, MD

20. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2011
January 10, 2011
Her Death Will Be On My Soul": End of Life Journey with an Iraqi Family
-Jackson Williams, MD
February 14, 2011
When an Abusive Patient Wears You Down
-Maura Brennan, MD
March 14, 2011
Eight Physicians/NPs in 24 Hours for a Dying Patient—
One Son’s Journey
-John O’Reilly, MD
April 11, 2011
Delirium, Distress and Delays: A Saga of Suffering for One Elder and His
Family
-Maura Brennan, MD

21. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2011
May 9, 2011
Compassionately Caring at the Bedside: Honoring our Nurses
-John O'Reilly, MD
June 13, 2011
Medical Errors and the Emotional Impact on Caregivers, Patients, and
Compassionate Care
-Randolph Peto, MD
July 11, 2011
ALS Rocked My World - A BMC Patient Story
-Randolph Peto, MD, MPH
August 8, 2011
I'm Just Covering..." How Fragmented Care Can Undermine Trust
-Michael Picchioni, MD

22. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2011
September 12, 2011
Building the Bond: Substance-Exposed Newborns, Their Parents, and the
Professionals Who Care For Them
-John O’Reilly, MD,
October 17, 2011
Patient and Family Centered Care Awareness Month-My Baystate Experience.
What Families Say.
-Jacqueline Bell, B.S. CCLS
November 14, 2011
What Patients Hear When We’re Not Talking to Them.
-Michael Picchioni, MD
December 12, 2011
A Gift of Balance for 2012: Mindfulness and Appreciative Inquiry for the Busy
Clinician
-Randolph Peto, MD MPH

23. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2012
January 9th 2012
OMG! Where’s the Compassion?? - What Happens when Patients are in
Spiritual Crisis
- Thomas Chirdo
February 13, 2012
Discharges Against Medical Advice (AMA): Conflicts, Miscommunication and
Stress
- Stephen Ryzewicz
March 12, 2012
Beyond the Chief Complaint: Understanding the Patient in the Context of his
Community
-Michael Picchioni, M.D., Tim Moriarty, Karen Pohlman, Xiao Chi (Tony) Zhang,
Kathleen McKenna

24. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2012
April 9, 2012
"Health Care Providers with Disabilities: Perceptions, Challenges and Rewards
- John O'Reilly, Lindsey Grossman, Francis Duda, Robin Gottlieb
May 14, 2012
Getting Fired by Patients or their Families
-Maura Brennan, Annalee Wells, Tommie Burton
June 11, 2012
Caring for Patients Who Don't Care for Themselves
Diane Dietzen, John Landis, Jackcy Jacob
July 9, 2012
"Smile, You're on Candid Camera: What Happens When the Provider-Patient
Interaction is Video Recorded, With or Without Permission."
- Stephen Ryzewicz, James A. Stewart

25. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2012
August 13, 2012
From Our Hands to Yours: What We Have Learned about Communication with
Patients
- Deborah Morsi, Ronald T. Burkman, John O'Reilly
September 10, 2012
"Breaking Bad News: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"
Segments
- Maura Brennan, Deborah Morsi
October 15, 2012
He Did It His Way: From a Suicide Attempt to a Peaceful Death?
- Joyce Smith, Maura Brennan, Alice P. Leveston
November 12, 2012
Are We Falling Short on Treating Pain??
- Diane Dietzen, April Mazzarino-Willett, Amatur Amarah

26. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2012
December 10, 2012
Computers, Complexity, and Compassion
- Jackson Williams, Maura Brennan, Stephen Ryzewicz

27. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2013
January 14, 2013
Can Compassionate Communication be Prompted and Coached?
- Randolph Peto (Facilitator), Cidalia Vital, Ken Parker, Janet Hartley, Nancy
Kavka
February 11, 2013
A Dysfunctional Family and the "Tale of Two Hospitals:" Mercy and Baystate
Providers Share Insights on "The Best of Times and the Worst of Times."?
- Harry Hoar III, Diane Dietzen, Maura Brennan, MD, Debra Meyer, Auras
Atreya
March 11, 2013
The Tale of Two Hospitals: Mercy and Baystate Providers Share Insights - "The
Best of Times and the Worst of Times Part II"?
- Dr. Diane Dietzen, Maura Brennan, MD, Harry Hoar III, Shawn Charest, Tracy
Green

28. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2013
April 18, 2013
BMC Senior Leaders Reflect on the Cases/Experiences that Taught Them the
Most about Compassionate Care
- Mark A. Keroack, Mark R. Tolosky, Maura Brennan, Maura McQueeney,
Deborah Provost
May 13, 2013
Compassionate Collegiality amid Religious and Cultural Diversity
- Gurmukteshwar Singh, Reham Shaaban
June 10, 2013
Compassion Fatigue- Are We Too Busy to Care?
- John O'Reilly, MD

29. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2013
July 8, 2013
When Tomorrow Starts Without Me: Coping with the Loss of a Colleague
- Patricia Bailey-Sarnelli, Katharine O'Connell White, Maura Brennan, MD,
Sandra Lyall
August 12, 2013
How Many Hours into Your Shift Does Compassion Corner-Cutting Occur?
- Randolph Peto
October 21, 2013
Caring For Yourself After A Bad Outcome
- Jackson Williams, Steven Fischel, Beth Carter, Stephen Boos, Holly Perry

30. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2013
November 4, 2013
Curbside Consultations: Collaborations, Communications, Conundrums and
Conflicts
- Stephen Ryzewicz, James A. Stewart, Anita Sarro, Jeffrey Mulhern
December 9, 2013
Compassionate Caregiving: Are there Limits?
- Jackson Williams, Diane Dietzen, Christine McKiernan, Phyllis A. Rigazio,
Carol Hollister, Jennifer Moccio, Bryant Benson

31. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2014
January 13, 2014
"Lapses in Professionalism and Compassion: What is our Duty??
- Brendan Kelly, Samuel Borden, Kevin O'Callaghan, Bryson, Christine,
LaShanda Lewis
February 10, 2014
What’s Your Resiliency Quotient?
- Randolph Peto, Linda Krasnow, Robert Smith, Melany Thompson Wheeler,
Nancy Rines, John O'Reilly, MD, Daniel L. Landry, Diane E. Tillman
March 10, 2014
Transitioning to Adulthood - Stories from the Experts - the Families Coping with
Complex Illnesses.
- John O'Reilly, MD, Matt Sadof, Pixie Plummer, Julie Peck, Deborah Davignon,
Linda A. Surprenant

32. Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds
Titles through the Years
2014
April 14, 2014
The Challenges of a Difficult patient: What can we learn from another
profession?
- Cinnamon Desgres, Peter DePergola, Steven Fischel, Heather G. Beattie