Elsewhere in the Palliverse – Weekend Reads

Posted on June 20, 2015 by Elissa

Here’s the latest collection of reads for your weekend, with palliative care news from around the world, research and social media advice, and a palliative pet care story. As always, please enjoy and share your thoughts in the comments below.

Today is World Refugee Day, at a time when world refugee numbers are at their highest since WWII. A new Palliative Care in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies (PALCHE) network has launched to help address the unmet palliative care needs of the world’s >60 million refugees. Read about it (and find out how to get involved) at ehospice.

Happy 10th Birthday, Pallimed! Continue reading →

Is the health system designed to crush the creativity and spirit of health professionals?

Posted on May 3, 2015 by Elissa

Do you ever feel like health professional education and the health system are designed to take talented, intelligent, creative individuals and turn them into machines with no ability to innovate? Do you find yourself banging your head against a wall when even the smallest change for improvement requires hours of paperwork (that you probably submitted via fax), approval by numerous committees and months of waiting? Do you feel trapped in a health care silo? Do you feel ridiculous attending “multidisciplinary” meetings when the multiple disciplines are merely different specialties within your own profession?

If the answer to any of these questions is “Yes”, please keep reading. Continue reading →

Elsewhere in the Palliverse – social media edition

Posted on December 12, 2014 by Elissa

Social media is a broad term that includes all sorts of online platforms and interactions, from the blogs* I follow (and share) via my RSS reader, to Youtube videos, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, slideshare and beyond. This week’s “Elsewhere in the Palliverse” visits the intersection of social media, palliative care and research.

Watch the ehospice interview with Atul Gawande at their YouTube channel (above).
Is it possible to crowd fund a palliative care service? As I write this, the Resolution Care team are within USD $7000 of their USD $100 000 goal, with 19 hours to go. (via one of our favourite blogs, Pallimed)
If you don’t have time for Twitter, perhaps you should make time to read this… (by Carl Heslop aka @CarlosDenWA, a rural RN and public health PhD student in WA, via @croakeyblog)
Discussion of palliative care on Twitter is largely positive, and increasing, finds a study from Dr Amara Nwosu (of the Marie Curie Institute in Liverpool), published earlier this year in BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care (via ehospice)
Some tips for conference organisers on how to optimise conference tweeting, by Sydney urologist and Twitterati Dr Henry Woo (@DrHWoo).
Henry’s advice is especially important when designing patient-friendly conferences (from @Colin_Hung at the Healthcare Leadership Blog).
Croakey shares 10 tips for using social media to promote health: reflections from Fertility Week. (Okay, so “Fertility Week” doesn’t immediately scream “palliative care and research” but these tips are translatable to palliative care promotion.)
Two articles from Sydney entomologist Dr Cameron Webb, Can social media increase the exposure of newly published research? and From publication to the public: Can blogging scientific papers stop people getting sick? (Short answer – yes!)
The UK-based CotEcast is a podcast for clinicians who care for older patients. The episodes have great names (and content), like “Breaking Bad Bones” and “The F Word”.
What do you think about the possibility of “Google Science”? (How Google Science Could Transform Academic Publishing, via Wired)

*including palliverse.com, of course!

Elsewhere in the Palliverse – weekend reads

Posted on December 5, 2014 by palliverse

Gratuitous holiday snap unrelated to post

I’ll be spending the weekend ~~enjoying the sunshine~~ ~~reminiscing over holiday snaps catching up with tweets from #CancerCongress, #PPCConference, #COSA2014~~ working on an ethics proposal. If you’re looking for something to do, try this reading list.

The Guardian gives us a look into the lives of PhD students.
The Conversation takes a look at problems with peer review. “Many now believe that long-standing metrics of academic research – peer review, citation-counting, impact factor – are reaching breaking point. But we are not yet in a position to place complete trust in the alternatives – altmetrics, open science, and post-publication review.”
5 ways for scientists to attract media interest via Research Media
From the UK’s Daily Mail: Dementia patients are being failed at the end of life because dementia is not being recognised as a terminal condition. Meanwhile, Dirk Houttekier talks to EAPC Blog about a recent paper in Palliative Medicine, with a similar theme. Continue reading →

Elsewhere in the palliverse – Weekend reads without Elissa

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Michael

Dear Friends,

Another week has passed and there is much to tell, but before we get into let spare a quick (and envious) thought for Elissa who can’t be with us to post today because she is in the middle of a well earned holiday.

Now down to business.

This clip from the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) describes a novel analogy for our selves that works neatly with a description of palliative care.

The animation is part of a suite of resources that the CAPC has made available here. Continue reading →

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