Stage 4 Living: Palliative Care is Not Hospice with Dr. Mary Busowski

Stage 4 Living: Palliative Care is Not Hospice with Dr. Mary Busowski

Palliative care is not hospice — and that one misconception is keeping cancer patients from getting support they desperately need. Dr. Mary Busowski, palliative care physician at Orlando Health, joins our hosts Abigail Johnston and Amy Russell-Parliman o set the record straight and make the case for getting palliative care involved from day one.

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S**t We Deal With Shorts: Time Burden with Dr. Jill Tirabassi

S**t We Deal With Shorts: Time Burden with Dr. Jill Tirabassi

"You hear things like, 'living with cancer is a full-time job.' And actually this was an interesting study where we looked to see what truly is the time burden for people living with either metastatic breast or ovarian cancer... The time spent waiting and traveling for care often exceeded the amount of time receiving care. Most days, participants had a home cancer-related task to do—80% of days. The median was about 209 minutes per week doing cancer related tasks at home."

— Dr. Jill Tirabassi explores new research quantifying the invisible labor of living with metastatic cancer

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