Fates Worse than Death: Empowering Teams to Tackle End-of-Life Needs

Fates Worse than Death: Empowering Teams to Tackle End-of-Life Needs

Jean Zigby, MD
MDCM, CCFP, FCFP, CCA(PC)
Director, Division of Supportive and Palliative Care, CCOMTL
Associate Director, Cancer Prevention Centre, JGH
Founding President, Synergie Santé Environnement

Educational Objectives:

1. Refresh the common trajectories of our dying patients that all clinicians can predict
2. Describe the narrative and quantitative approaches to prognostication proven to help patients and families MOST
3. Learn how to integrate Supportive and Palliative Care as part of the care team earlier in serious illness to optimize outcomes.

Join the virtual Medical Grand Rounds on Microsoft Teams.

Hybrid Medical Grand Rounds are additionally in person at the Block amphitheatre, room B-106

The Medical Grand Rounds are an accredited group learning activity as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Some Rounds were video recorded.

Full JGH Medical Grand Rounds Schedule