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Journal of Palliative Care & Medicine | ISSN: 2165-7386 | Volume 8
August 27-28, 2018 | Boston, USA
4
th
International Conference on
Palliative Care, Medicine and Hospice Nursing
Re-creating community: Owning the mission of true palliative care
Timothy G Ihrig
Ihrig MD & Associates, USA
T
imothy G Ihrig, MD, examines the influence of cultural behaviors and beliefs on the development, delivery, and future of
healthcare. Healthcare is a rapidly changing and challenging profession. As providers, we are facing some of the greatest obstacles
in our history. Ethical challenges abound at the intersection of care, education, public perception, economics, policy, and technology.
It is increasingly easy to lose sight of what is important, to forget who we are, what it means to remain patient-centric and to define
our fiduciary responsibility. How do we navigate amongst so many competing platforms? Drawing parallels between the current
paradigm of segmented care delivery with the loss of "community" as expressed a century ago, he will reveal his thoughts on how we
can evolve back to a higher sense of connectivity. Through this, he uncovers that shifting our perspective of how life can be lived; we
become able to connect to a greater sense of humanity beyond our own and can truly impact care and enhance relationships with
patients, families, each other and ourselves; and can move towards truly caring for another human being. Challenging our perception
empowers the translation of healthcare into care.
tim@ihrigmd.comJ Palliat Care Med 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7386-C3-021