Great response @adamhayden Partnering in care requires mutual respect for all members of the team, including patients and families.

Wondering why Kobe Bryant’s death has hit you so hard? Puzzled by grief in others? It’s normal. Let’s show empathy in all sorts of grief experiences. 9 Reasons It Is Not Crazy To Grieve A Celebrity Death whatsyourgrief.com/grieving-a-cel… via @whatsyourgrief

Spirituality & Palliative Care series starts on EAPC blog tomorrow on how people deal with crisis & suffering when confronted with life-threatening illness. Lukas Radbruch & Cornelia Richter launch series tomorrow at eapcnet.wordpress.com Cornelia Richter Lukas Radbruch EAPC VZW

Did you know that the currently running California Thoracic Society Virtual Conference will be available for six-weeks? You can sign up now, get access to the conference online, and then watch the conference for CME credits at your leisure. calthoracic.org/events/2020-so… American Thoracic Society (ATS)

Thank you Dr. Wang-and thank you to the entire California Thoracic Society team for a successful virtual conference. Much more interactive than I imagined!

September is #WomenInMedicine Month! Join us in celebrating the amazing women in the medical field and on the front lines of the #COVID19 pandemic by spreading the word with these messages and images. spr.ly/6019GsqLz #WIMMonth

Excited to be part of making the ICU a safer place for patients and preventing symptoms of post-ICU syndrome! rdcu.be/b7Mus

Palliative care and the Beloved Community – “we persist in the halls of power and on Zoom (!) to insist on the integration of palliative care into health systems, even in the middle of a pandemic.” globalpalliativecare.home.blog/2020/08/02/pal…

Well done #Australia for including #PalliativeCare in your national statement World Health Organization (WHO) #EBSS5 in the context of #COVID19 response & preparedness strengthening health systems #NCD care. #Vaccines important but not the whole story! Thanks Kate Reed-Cox NP @PCACEO Palliative Care Australia

Today we celebrate the 1️⃣ year anniversary of the approval of Trikafta, a CFTR modulator for people with cystic fibrosis ages 12 and older with at least one F508del mutation. As we celebrate, let's look back on the reflections of the CF community from the last year. 🧵

Just published online: Case Fatality Rates for COVID-19 Patients Requiring Invasive Mechanical Ventilation: A Meta-analysis | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | Proud to be part of this project!! atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/rc…

Great visual on some of the common “misses” on discharge for critically ill COVID patients. More work to do especially on the last one! #ICURehab @iwashyna @CAHarrisMD

Can we stop using "aggressive care" as the opposite of #hospice care? Anyone who thinks hospice is not aggressive has never seen us control pain, treat wounds, find a rabbi to FaceTime w/a patient on a Friday night during a pandemic, etc. Hospice care is aggressive care. #HaPC

Congratulations to our own Dr. Jess Mandel for being selected UCSD Physician of the Year!

.SDCMS honored Jess Mandel, MD, head of pulmonary, critical care, w/ a presidential citation. “He was a key resource for the county's COVID-19 response. He organized relief efforts in Tijuana and Mexicali, saving hundreds of lives and reducing cross–border spread of the virus.”

Honored to talk with Julie and Clare about advocacy in nursing (relevant to all in healthcare) in the latest Palliative Nursing Leadership podcast series. Hope you listen and are inspired to advocate in ways that are meaningful to you and the patients and teams you serve.

Have you ever paid careful attention to the art in our health systems? What message do we wish to convey? What Should Hang on the Walls of a Hospital? newyorker.com/culture/cultur… via The New Yorker

Today i prepped my team again for another surge,a bigger one. More end of life visits &symptoms. More bereavement calls. This is #palliativecare #hapc #covid19 has tired &traumatized us For every healthcare worker’s sake, for children, for each other, get vaccinated & mask up

Thanks for Dr. Kristina Kudelko and a Dr. Gaurav Singh from @StanfordPaccm Stanford Health Care, our wonderful co-chairs, for organizing an amazing conference for California Thoracic Society. American Thoracic Society (ATS).