The Path to Creating a New Model of Comprehensive Palliative Care

10/13/22 • 28 min

In healthcare today, collaboration and alignment among providers, hospitals and payers often get short-changed, even when it's in the best interests of the patient. This is especially true in the commonly misunderstood field of palliative care, where Dr. Michael Frankenthaler is working to bring greater understanding, communication, and efficiency to the full spectrum of palliative care. Dr. Frankenthaler, a critical-care, ICU-trained physician who moved into palliative care a decade ago, says he sees this transition as being rooted in his efforts to "bring common sense back to medicine." His ideas center upon ways to "normalize the variability and uncertainty of serious disease" for patients and their families, as he discusses here. Dr. Frakenthaler is the Chief of Palliative Medicine NYCHealth+Hospitals/Jacobi and North Central Bronx Hospitals

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Anthony Manson 0:01
Welcome. This is medicine in America, a podcast that will share the stories of physicians and other health care professionals who are changing the way they practice. We will hear what made them realize they had to reinvent and rethink their approach to treating patients. My name is Anthony Manson. I'm a 20 year plus veteran of the healthcare industry. And I'm being joined today by my co host and longtime friend a