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About Empathy

About Empathy

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 About Empathy is a healthCARE podcast that focuses on patient, caregiver and healthcare provider stories. We believe these stories of hope, struggle, love and grief can help inspire compassion and humanism. Podcast guests discuss their personal stories, while the hosts reflect on those stories to help enable and support empathic interactions in the healthcare community.Giovanna Sirianni Alternative & Complementary Medicine Hygiene & Healthy Living Science
Episodes
  • Season 5 Episode 6: Making Space for non-physical suffering - Dr Maxxine Rattner

    Season 5 Episode 6: Making Space for non-physical suffering - Dr Maxxine Rattner
    Dec 6 2023

    Dr. Maxxine Rattner is a hospice/palliative care clinician and educator who recently completed her PhD on the topic of non-physical suffering. In this episode, we discuss the challenges in addressing non-physical suffering and the importance of making space within palliative care to do this intrinsically difficult work and approach the work without the expectation of “fixing” suffering. 
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    25 mins
  • Season 5 Episode 5: Cultural humility in healthcare - Dr Zhimeng Jia

    Season 5 Episode 5: Cultural humility in healthcare - Dr Zhimeng Jia
    Nov 29 2023

    Dr. Zhimeng Jia is a palliative care physician at the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care in Toronto.  Through a combination of personal and clinical experiences, Dr. Jia developed an interest in health inequities that Asian immigrants experience at the end-of-life. In this episode, he shares the lessons he has learned in providing culturally aware care to patients and their families.
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    29 mins
  • Season 5 Episode 4: Wrap Around Support: Caring for the Seriously Ill Child - Dr Dave Lysecki

    Season 5 Episode 4: Wrap Around Support: Caring for the Seriously Ill Child - Dr Dave Lysecki
    Nov 22 2023

    Dr. David Lysecki is the Founder and Medical Director of the Quality of Life & Advanced Care Program at McMaster Children's Hospital. In this episode, Dr. Lysecki discusses his experience working in pediatric palliative care, and how he navigates both the rewards and challenges of working in this area. We also discuss how we can ensure that palliative care and pediatric palliative care become the work of all health care providers.
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    25 mins
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