Faces Of Pain Care

After listening to this podcast, you will leave feeling energized by the prospect of palliative care and the benefits a comprehensive team approach brings to patients, families, communities, and healthcare organizations. Everybody wins. https://wongbakerfaces.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Ferris-Bio.pdf (Dr. Frank D. Ferris) is the executive director of the Palliative Medicine, Research, and Education for Ohio Health. He is a global expert in palliative care and provides compelling evidence in support of palliative care. Dr. Ferris is particularly interested in strategies for integrating palliative care into existing healthcare systems worldwide. He has published and spoken widely on multiple palliative care subjects and effective approaches to education and program implementation. Listen to this podcast to learn more about palliative care and then share your knowledge with your community. People do not need to be dying to receive palliative care. This perspective is a frequent misconception. Hospice is pa

Our guest discusses coping strategies to bring hope, healing, and strength even in disaster. Dr. Laurie Nadel is a specialist in acute stress, trauma, and anxiety issues and author of The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing, and Strength When Disaster Strikes. Her first career, as a journalist, led her to spend twenty years writing and producing hard news, meaning those grisly clips of people whose lives were going along normally until a sudden, violent event ripped the ground out from under them. Though her work required detachment and focus, she often wondered what happened to those people after the cameras left. In 1987, while covering the Iran-Contra hearings for CBS News she was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome due to CMV (cytomegalovirus). However, at that time conventional medical treatment for the virus did not exist. This opened the doorway for Laurie to begin studying meditation and seeking natural alternatives to regain health. At that time she changed career direction and completed two

Learn more about Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) from the developer, Dr. Carolyn McMakin. FSM is an exciting new way of treating nerve, muscle pain, and many other conditions using specific frequencies and micro amperage current. Dr. Carolyn McMakin developed Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) in 1996 and began teaching it in 1997. She has a part-time practice, consults with and treats professional teams and elite athletes, and does clinical research and teaches FSM seminars in the US and abroad. She has lectured at the National Institutes of Health and at medical conferences in the US, England, Ireland and Australia on the subjects of fibromyalgia and myofascial pain syndrome, fibromyalgia associated with cervical spine trauma and on the differential diagnosis and treatment of pain and pain syndromes and sports injuries. She has authored seven peer-reviewed articles, four book chapters and two abstracts in the areas of chronic pain and differential diagnosis. Books by Dr. McMakin https://www.amazo

The Conscious Dying Institute purpose is to restore death to its sacred place in the beauty, mystery, and celebration of life. Please join us for this engaging interview with Tarron Estes, founder, and director of The Conscious Dying Institute in Boulder, CO. Don’t miss the generous discount offered for the next Sacred Passages: End of Life Doula Certificates. There are just a few spots left. Tarron Estes is the founder and director of The Conscious Dying Institute of Boulder, Colorado. She designs and facilitates onsite (onsite) “Sacred Passage: End of Life Doula Certificates” in the U.S. and Canada where she has trained and certified over 750 End of Life Doulas since the onset of the institute in 2013. Graduates of the End of Life Doula Certificate may continue their journey by joining the Masters Path, becoming Conscious Dying Educators who “Restore Death to it’s Sacred Place in the Beauty, Mystery, and Celebration of Life in their local communities. https://wongbakerfaces.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/

Supporting behavioral health for seniors in rural communities can be a daunting task for small hospitals. Sheila Frazier and Wendy Riggs, MSN, RN-BC join FACES of Pain Care to discuss the geriatric behavioral health management services provided by UltraGroup Healthcare, LLC to assist rural hospitals in developing and sustaining programs to meet these needs in their community. http://www.ultragrouphealthcare.com (www.ultragrouphealthcare.com) Bios Sheila Frazier, RN Director of Performance Improvement Sheila develops and revises policies and procedures to meet CMS and State regulations, assists with new program staff orientation and training, identifies opportunities for improvement in existing programs, and performs chart audits. She brings to UltraGroup the Nursing component with a broad range of experience from urban emergency rooms to rural home health, long term care to include case management, quality assurance, and educational training and leadership. Sheila graduated from Eastern Kentucky University

CEO Rachel Trobman introduces Ouchie, a new application designed by Rachel and Jason Trobman to help people with pain conditions manage their symptoms, keep a record of pain assessment and treatment, and be able to communicate with their healthcare providers in a succinct way. People in pain often feel isolated and overwhelmed. This app gives the user the option of interacting with others on a similar pain journey. The intention of Ouchie is taking the pain out of being in pain. Rachel Trobman, CEO Rachel is a seasoned digital content and project management expert who’s worked directly with a number of big-name publishing brands and was most recently part of the founding team at the digital media company Zazoom Media Group. Her impressive client list includes the New York Times, P&G, the NFL, Yahoo! News, Today.com, Hearst Publishing, AOL and NY1 News. She’s also had front-line involvement with the launch of a half-dozen successful digital product launches. As CEO, Rachel has been responsible for prod

Dr. Soombal Zahid believes in a team approach to managing cancer pain. Through her patient experiences, she has seen that proper pain management has the power to decrease patient suffering and increase the quality of life. Her ultimate goal is to help people realize that the fight against cancer-related pain is a team approach: physicians, counselors, therapists, trainers, families, and of course patients themselves should all take advantage of the therapeutic options available and work together to create an ideal pain management plan for affected individuals. Dr. Soombal Zahid is a resident physician in Internal Medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. She completed her medical training at New York College of Osteopathic Medicine and her undergraduate education at Barnard College of Columbia University. She has written for the Practical Pain Management Magazine on supplemental techniques for decreasing cancer-related pain and worked on research projects exploring organ-sparing radiation treatments

Dr. Rosenquist specializes in pain medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. Board-certified in anesthesiology and pain medicine, Dr. Rosenquist shares her knowledge and approach to long-term pain care.  This includes her use of complementary medicine, to ensure a more personalized response to specific types of pain. A strong believer in pain management education, Dr. Rosenquist spends time with her patients and their families to explain the process of managing the pain, encouraging active involvement in their care. Bio: Ellen W.K. Rosenquist, MD, completed her anesthesiology residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School and her pain medicine fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. She is board certified in anesthesiology and pain medicine. She also completed training in medical acupuncture through the Helms Medical Institute and is certified in medical acupuncture. She is currently an assistant professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western University.

Since the late 1990’s there has been an explosion in the prescribing of opiate pain medication. As a result of advocacy programs such as treating pain as the “Fifth Vital Sign” and aggressive marketing by the pharmaceutical industry, the number of prescriptions has tripled from 76 million in 1991 to 219 million in 2011 (Vector One National). Listen as Chris Johnson, MD, walks you through his journey and experience with the opiate epidemic in the United States. Dr. Johnson works with the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement on their Pain Management Work Group, which develops evidence-based guidelines for treating pain applicable to all specialties. He is also a member of the Minnesota Medical Association’s Board of Trustees. Chris Johnson received his medical training at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, VA, graduating in 2000 and completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center in 2003. He has been practicing in the Twin Cities for the last 13 ye

Amy is passionate about helping people learn how to live joy-filled, peaceful, and resilient lives. If you are interested in positive personal growth, then join her for one of her courses or an international meditation retreat where together you’ll explore ways to reduce stress and anxiety while cultivating acceptance and compassion for self and others. Her mission is to help people discover and cultivate acceptance and compassion for self and others so that in turn, they can thrive in their chosen fields. She spent 12 years as a massage therapist at a large corporation, where often stress was the underlying cause of people’s discomfort. Amy realized she could more effectively help people by teaching them tools and techniques for stress reduction and self-compassion than by massaging them an hour at a time. Amy’s meditation practice began 20+ years ago with a Taoist meditation teacher, and then she learned about and completed the teacher training program for Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT), an 8-week

Prioritizing health became an important message for Michelle Rathman after being diagnosed with malignant melanoma. As President and CEO of Impact! Communications, Inc. a busy public relations, marketing and consulting firm, Michelle often worked with well-known authors, including Wayne Dyer and Deepak Chopra. These authors and many others introduced her to the world of holistic health. After a time she realized it was time to take her own advice and ensure her health was a top priority. In doing so, she visited a dermatologist and was diagnosed with malignant melanoma. Her experience as a patient is the catalyst for her work and passion to improve healthcare culture – both for caregivers and receivers. She hopes to provide healthcare leaders with new insight into the patient’s personal experience and explore what needs to be done to ensure that others don’t experience what she endured. Listen to Michelle as she walks you through her experience that forever changed how she sees healthcare fueling her passi

Walk with Dr. Daniel Abazia as he describes the journey he and his wife took after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, through the treatment options, surgery solutions, and finally the post-care. Dr. Abazia is a clinical assistant professor in the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University. His expertise and professional interests include pain management and palliative care, which enhanced and informed his experience while balancing his expertise with the love for his wife.  Join us for this informative and heartfelt interview. We mentioned the Wong-Baker FACES® Pain Relief Log on this episode.  You can check it out here:  https://wongbakerfaces.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/WBF-Pain-Relief-Log.docx (Pain Relief Log)https://wongbakerfaces.org/wong-baker-fac…ain-relief-log/ (.)    

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