Dr Eric Krakauer, assistant professor of medicine and of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School, and palliative medicine specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital, spoke at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center about implementing palliative care in resource limited settings.
Dr Krakauer drew on his experience training over a thousand physicians and nurses in palliative care in Vietnam to discuss how palliative care should be delivered in high and low income countries, palliative care’s perception around the world and the barriers to providing palliative care…more