What is Hospice and Palliative Medicine Specialist - Surgeon?
A hospice and palliative medicine surgeon has special knowledge and skills in managing patients with life-limiting illnesses focuses on preventing and alleviating suffering. This specialist maximize the quality of life while working with an interdisciplinary hospice or palliative care team, simultaneously addressing physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of both patient and family throughout the course of the disease, through the dying process, and beyond for the family. This specialist has an expertise in assessing patients with advanced disease, provide relief to distressing symptoms, perform coordination of interdisciplinary patient and family-centered care in diverse venues, to use specialized care systems including hospice, to manage end-of-life care, and guiding legal and ethical decisions in diverse care settings, including hospice. Everyday Health-Care has found the best 53 Hospice and Palliative Medicine Specialists - Surgeons near me in Columbus, OH.