#028 - Join host Dr. Red Hoffman as she interviews Andy Baxter, the founder of the Cunniff-Dixon Foundation. The Foundation is named in honor of Andy's wife, Carley, who died of breast cancer in 2005, as well as in honor of her physician, Dr. Peter S. Dixon. The mission of the Cunniff-Dixon Foundation is to enrich the Doctor-Patient relationship near the end of life by fostering human development in medicine and supporting and funding projects relating to Palliative Care.

In 2009, along with the American College of Surgeons, the Foundation produced Surgical Palliative Care: A Resident's Guide. For many years, this was the only readily available resource available for surgeons who were interested in learning how to integrate palliative medicine into the care of surgical patients. The Foundation's latest project, Planning Way My, is a free resource created to help guide people through their Advance Care Planning journey.

To learn more about the Cunniff-Dixon Foundation click here.

To read Surgical Palliative Care: A Resident's Guide click here.

To learn more about Planning My Way click here.

To learn more about the recently launched Surgical Palliative Care Society, visit the website at www.spcsociety.org or twitter @spcsociety.

To learn more about the surgical palliative care community, visit twitter @surgpallcare

To learn more about host Red Hoffman, visit her website www.redhoffmanmd.com or twitter @redmdnd.

#027 - Join host Dr. Red Hoffman as she interviews neurosurgeon and writer Dr. Jody Stern. Jody discusses his recently released book, Grief Connects Us, which was inspired by his sister Victoria's illness and death from leukemia as well as his brother in law Pat's death from a ruptured aneurysm. Jody speaks candidly about how these experiences changed him as both a person and as a surgeon. He reflects upon the importance of emotional agility and the challenges of practicing as a surgeon while maintaining an open heart. However, he also notes that "if a neurosurgeon can do it, anyone can!"

Jody's essays in the New York Times:
Grief As My Guide: How My Sister Made Me a Better Doctor
Moral Distress in Neurosurgery
Dying in the Neurosurgical ICU

To purchase Grief Connects Us: A Neurosurgeon's on Love, Loss and Compassion, go here.

To purchase Emotional Agility by Susan David, click here.

To learn more about the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, click here.

To learn more about the recently launched Surgical Palliative Care Society, visit the website at www.spcsociety.org or twitter @spcsociety.

To learn more about the surgical palliative care community, visit twitter @surgpallcare

To learn more about host Red Hoffman, visit her website www.redhoffmanmd.com or twitter @redmdnd.

#026 - Join host Dr. Red Hoffman as she once again has the privilege of interviewing Dr. Balfour Mount, the founder of Palliative Medicine. Bal recently released his 500-page memoir entitled Ten Thousand Crossroads: The Path as I Remember It and he generously returns to the show to talk about his book. He discusses his friendships with both Dame Cicely Saunders and Elizabeth Kubler Ross and shares lessons he learned from both women. He also reflects upon the many lessons he learned from his patients and how his own journey with multiple cancers influenced his practice of medicine throughout his career.

Bal is a cultural icon and it is a pure pleasure to sit back and listen to him reflect upon his life and his career. I cannot recommend his book highly enough; besides stories about Dame Cicely Saunders and Elizabeth Kubler Ross, he also includes memories about meeting Viktor Frankl and the Dalai Lama, as well as a funny phone call with Mother Teresa.

To purchase Ten Thousand Crossroads: The Path as I Remember It, go here.

To learn more about the recently launched Surgical Palliative Care Society, visit the website at www.spcsociety.org or twitter @spcsociety.

To learn more about the surgical palliative care community, visit twitter @surgpallcare

To learn more about host Red Hoffman, visit her website www.redhoffmanmd.com or twitter @redmdnd.