By Dr Stephen Connor | Executive Director
Ukrainian physicians, nurses, and psychologists from seven regions throughout the country attend case conferences where they bring difficult patients problems to discuss. WHPCA volunteer palliative care specialists from leading US institutions (Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Fox Chase) provide recommendations on treatment and share approaches to mananging serious health related suffering. The most recent case involved an older patient with advanced cancer whose daughter would not let her father take morphine for pain for fear of devloping addiction. This is not an uncommon problem in treating palliative care patients. The daughter showed denial in believing her father was as sick as he was and refused to believe he could die and sought local folk remedies. The dicussion centered around how to help the daughter to deal with the reality of his condition while still maintaining hope for improvement. Addiction (opioid use disorder) is not a problem in palliative care and morphine is very appropriate for pain control. We need your help to conitinue to provide this support to our colleagues in Ukraine so that we can pay for the cost of hosting and simultaneous translation of these essential training programs.
By Dr Stephen Connor | Executive Director
By Dr Stephen Connor | Executive Director
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