Paul Rousseau, MD
Paul Rousseau is a palliative medicine physician.
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"I want everything done. Please, Dr. Rousseau, do everything. We have two children--they can't be without their father. Do you understand? Do what it takes to keep him alive!" Angie, a petite woman with long blonde hair, fixes me with…
“I want everything done. Please, Dr. Rousseau, do everything. We have two children–they can’t be without their father. Do you understand? Do what it takes to keep him alive!”
Angie, a petite woman with long blonde hair, fixes me with piercing blue eyes. Her husband, Joe, fifty-two, has scleroderma, an autoimmune disease. In its most devastating form, it hardens the skin and destroys the kidneys, heart and lungs.
Joe is dying of …
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Sharing my loss helped a patient’s loss
Physician voices
Communication between physicians and patients is critical to quality care and improved outcomes, however, such discussions often seem labored and fraught with anxiety and stress. Physicians commonly speak too much and listen too little, while patients feel swept up in…
Communication between physicians and patients is critical to quality care and improved outcomes, however, such discussions often seem labored and fraught with anxiety and stress.
Physicians commonly speak too much and listen too little, while patients feel swept up in an unfamiliar and frightening situation with loss of control and little-to-no input into care.
As I have observed conversations …
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