A Day in My Life as a Doctor | When Cancer Becomes Something Else Entirely
Join me for a day in my life as a doctor where we explore hospice and palliative care. Cancer doesn't just cause the symptoms you'd expect it causes complications that blindside even experienced caregivers. As a palliative care physician, I walk you through the real ones: fluid around the heart, organ failure, and the moments that change a patient's entire care plan. 🔥 What You'll Learn: ✔️ Cancer complications that change a patient's care plan (pericardial effusion, organ failure) ✔️ How palliative doctors manage cancer pain with fentanyl patches ✔️ Hospice eligibility for cancer, Alzheimer's dementia, and cirrhosis/liver disease ✔️ What a time-limited trial is and when doctors use it ✔️ What hospice care actually is (and what it's NOT) 🔥 Who This Is For: ✔️ Families navigating a cancer diagnosis or hospice decision for a loved one ✔️ Medical students and residents considering palliative care ✔️ Nurses and healthcare providers learning hospice and oncology care ✔️ Anyone curious about what palliative care doctors actually do 📺 Watch next: • A Day in My Life As A Doctor | Brain Cance... 🔔 Subscribe for weekly videos on palliative care, medicine, doctor reflections and everything healthcare related. 📌 Chapters: 0:00 Why Hospice Gets It Wrong (And How We Fix It) 3:39 Fentanyl Patch Management — What Palliative Doctors Actually Do 11:24 How to Choose the Right Fellowship 12:43 How Does Hospice Actually Run? 14:14 When Cancer Causes Fluid Around the Heart (Pericardial Effusion) 18:04 The Biggest Hospice Misconception I See Every Week 23:48 Becoming a Hospice Expert 30:46 What Is a Time-Limited Trial? 33:53 Hospice for Alzheimer's Dementia 37:55 Hospice for Cirrhosis and Liver Disease Welcome to my channel! I’m Dr. Tochi Nwaneri Nwosu, a Board-Certified Internal Medicine Physician and current Hospice and Palliative Care Fellow. On this channel, I share helpful educational videos for medicine and palliative care for the general public, medical students, residents, attendings and medical providers alike. I hope you find them helpful. Subscribe for weekly videos on medicine and healthcare. #doctor #vlog #palliativecare #dayinmylife #adayinmylife #cancer
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