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Critical Illness Cosurvivors: An Interview with Lady Glaucomflecken
Vital Capacity
English - March 16, 2022 08:30 - 1 hour - 44.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness icu pulmonology criticalcare lung medicine Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We all will be at the receiving end of critical illness for ourselves or our loved ones. It is almost guaranteed. A family’s needs are the blind spot of the overstretched and dysfunctional health care system that needs to be addressed. Here, Kristin Flanary, also known as Lady Glaucomflecken, shares her experience, hoping to highlight the challenges of the families who are at the revived end of critical illness for their loved one.
Take-home lessons for health care professionals: While clinical excellence and focus on the patient is an absolute given, what sets a great HCP apart is clear and frequent communication, empathy and kindness. Let’s do better.
Kristin Flanary, MA, is administrator and communications manager at Belin-Blank Center for Gifted Education & Talent Development at the University of Iowa.
To read Flanary’s article in Journal of Cardiac Failure, click here: https://www.onlinejcf.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1071-9164%2821%2900403-6.
We’d love to hear from you! Send your comments/questions to Dr. Bhardwaj at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter @HealioPulm @abhi_bhardwaj99. You can follow Kristin Flanary on Twitter @LGlaucomflecken.
Disclosures: Bhardwaj and Flanary report no relevant financial disclosures.