Textbook, book for palliative care?

[LobsterMan]

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Hi all,

Will be doing palliative care fellowship next year. I wanted to see if anyone had recommendations for a go-to palliative care textbook or book. Is there a "definitive" textbook out there?

Would love to start learning about palliative care in advance of my first day in fellowship!

Thanks.

 

[Frazier]

The AAHPM primer is an easy read for prep in residency.
Someone bought me oxford, but it is dense and I haven't but browsed it during past year.
I also own evidence based, looks good, but haven't had time to dig in yet.

 

[SourceOfDenial]

Fast Facts - Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin

The Fifty Essential Fast Facts The Essentials is a pdf containing all 50 Fast Facts organized by key domain e.g pain, non-pain symptoms, communication, prognosis, hospice, Palliative Care consultation, etc. Core Curriculum The most important Fast Facts grouped into palliative care domains (e.g...

www.mypcnow.org

 

[Apollo11]

HPM fellow here
Textbook of Palliative medicine and supportive care by Bruera is outstanding
Evidance based practice of palliative care is very good too

 

[Frazier]

While not a pillar textbook of the subspecialty, I would highly recommend the Handbook of Psychiatry in Palliative Medicine.

Admittedly, I've gone out of order and so far only read chapters on dignity, meaning, demoralization, and spirituality... However for the robustness and elegance of those topics alone, I would recommend the book.

Excellent insight and tools housed in the pages.

 

[Frazier]

Demystifying opioid conversion calculations is on the way. Further thoughts in about a week

 

[WilcoWorld]

Demystifying opioid conversion calculations is on the way. Further thoughts in about a week

I don't wanna be a hater, but I didn't much care for this book. It may be because I quite like math & that book seemed light on the math & heavy on fluff intended to keep non-math inclined folks engaged. OTOH - Someone who is more math averse than I would probably like it more than I did.

 

[Frazier]

I don't wanna be a hater, but I didn't much care for this book. It may be because I quite like math & that book seemed light on the math & heavy on fluff intended to keep non-math inclined folks engaged. OTOH - Someone who is more math averse than I would probably like it more than I did.

It's arrived, but havent dug in yet.
I did hear that it was penned in a rather uhhh lighthearted way, perhaps bordering on fluffy. We'll see, I can imagine how it would get annoying!

Regarding math -- I suck at it for 30+ years. So maybe it will be a redeeming quality of the book for this reader 😉

 

[FinleySt7]

I don't wanna be a hater, but I didn't much care for this book. It may be because I quite like math & that book seemed light on the math & heavy on fluff intended to keep non-math inclined folks engaged. OTOH - Someone who is more math averse than I would probably like it more than I did.

Personally, this book seemed to me quite difficult in all plans.