WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: April 21, 2011 Featuring: Jennifer Temel, MD, Director, Fellowship Program at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH); Clinical Director, Thoracic Oncology, MGH; Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School Daniel Ray, MD, Medical Director, Medical Critical Care Program and Fellowship Director, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Lehigh Valley Health Network Allan Ramsay, MD, Medical Director, Palliative Care Service, Fletcher Allen Health Care; Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Family Medicine, University of Vermont College of Medicine   Sometimes when a researcher’s work gets published in an academic journal, intense media attention isn’t the full story. Since August 2010, when Dr. Jennifer Temel’s New England Journal of Medicine article was published, the findings have had a major impact on clinical leaders on the frontlines of palliative care. Just ask Dr. Allan Ramsay from Fletcher Allen in Vermont. He and his colleagues couldn’t pass around the NEJM article fast enough! For t