June 24, 2026 - 8:00am to 9:00am
Ethics and Palliative Care Grand Rounds
Theresa Brown, RN, PhD
Author of Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient; The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives; and Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between
Palliative care offers relief, an underrated treatment when curative options are no longer available to patients or will do more harm than good. The problem is, “curative options,” “harm” and “good” are often in the eye of the beholder, or the physician, when patients with serious illness are unable to get significantly better, but their lives and sometimes function can be maintained with health care interventions. This talk will explore the gray areas of palliative care using clinical examples from the speaker’s work as an oncology and hospice nurse, and research for her next book, 4 Nurses. A key theme will be the role of hope in the care of serious illness. What counts as hope when a patient is dying? Is false hope better than no hope at all, or is that a false dichotomy?
Continuing medical and social work education credits available.
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Passcode: PH75Ps9u
Sponsored by the Department of Medicine Section on Palliative Care and Medical Ethics
Location and Address
Online via Teams and in-person in Suite 300, Room 305, Parkvale Building