Timothy Ihrig: What we can do to die well
티모시 이릭(Timothy Ihrig): 잘 죽기 위해서 할 수 있는 것
Timothy Ihrig advocates for an approach to healthcare that prioritizes a patient's personal values. Full bio
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today about health care.
대해 말씀드리려고 합니다.
about the health and care
우리나라에서 가장 취약한 계층의
population in our country --
complex serious health issues.
가지고 있는 사람들 말입니다.
about economics as well.
이야기하려고 합니다.
should scare the hell out of you --
여러분을 몹시 두렵게 만들 겁니다.
about palliative medicine:
이야기하고 싶습니다.
grounded in what they value.
그들을 위한 치료 체계죠.
환자의 가치관을 기반으로 합니다.
live better and longer.
살 수 있도록 도와주죠.
직면하게 합니다.
of my very first patient.
시작하고 싶네요.
Harold, 68 years old,
and worse and worse.
that had spread to his brain.
암이 퍼진 것을 알게 되었습니다.
to go share with Harold and his family
그의 가족들에게 진단내용과 예후,
and options of care.
전달하라고 지시했어요.
유일한 행동을 했습니다.
news is it, sonny?"
"좋은 소식이 아니지, 의사양반?"
and we listened and we shared.
경청하고, 나누었습니다.
that has meaning to you?
의미있는 것은 뭔가요?
"어떻게 하고 싶으세요?"
and said, "I want to go fishing."
"낚시하러 가고 싶어."
my training in my career,
that had led us to crisis,
to the American way of life today,
가장 크게 위협하는
this population, the most ill,
가장 아픈 사람들이
of the gross domestic product --
차지함을 알고 있습니다.
take up 15 percent of the GDP.
GDP의 15%를 차지합니다.
over the next two decades
될 것입니다.
domestic product
with health care at that point.
관계있는 것은 거의 없습니다.
every thing that we value
모든 것들과 연관이 있습니다.
economy and capitalism
for a minute, forget the numbers.
잠시 잊읍시다.
for all these dollars we spend.
얻을 수 있는 가치에 대해 말해봅시다.
about six years ago,
spent by Medicare --
환자들에게 사용되는
the highest per capita expenditures
가장 높은 환자들이
pain, depression.
겪고 있다는 걸 알게 되었습니다.
system on the planet.
보건 의료 시스템을 가지고 있죠.
10배나 넘는 금액을
country in the world.
and sub-Saharan African countries
사하라 사막 이남의 아프리카 나라들이
as far as quality and value.
우리보다 순위가 더 높습니다.
every day in my practice,
겪는 일 중 하나는
on your own journeys have experienced:
각자 경험이 있으시리라 생각하는데요.
more surgery, more whatever --
많은 것을 겪는 환자들은
삶의 길이도 짧아져요.
long white-coat physicians --
긴 하얀 가운을 입은 의사들이,
선택할 수 있는 기회를
and pathology and surgery
across a continuum.
연속선상에서 경감한다.
the sickest of the sick --
함께 했습니다.
나아지게 했을까요?
at this population differently,
다른 시선으로 보고
at a different level, a deeper level,
그들과 관계를 맺으면서
of the human condition than my own?
넓은 의미로 연결할 수 있었을까요?
치료 그룹을 관리했기에
never had to go to the hospital?
지켜주었습니다.
and in 20 years is 60 percent of the GDP,
이 환자들을 위해
by nearly 70 percent.
70%나 줄였습니다.
based on their values,
원하는 것을 얻었고
한정되어 있었지만
from diagnosis through the end of life.
삶의 마지막 순간까지의 체계입니다.
that started in her cervix,
전이성 암세포가
삶을 살아가고 있어요.
해당하는 것이 아닙니다.
that you hold sacred?"
그리고 내 할리 데이비슨."
because I can barely pedal a bicycle,
당신을 할리에 태우고 달릴 순 없지만
작은 목소리들이 들렸죠.
one day at a time,"
"좋아요, 현재에 충실합시다."
other chapter of our life.
하는 것처럼 말이죠.
where Richard's at day-to-day.
매일 만났습니다.
of end-stage lung disease.
잘 해나가고 있습니다.
just for the elderly,
위한 것이 아닙니다.
그의 아버지가
joining us here today.
가지게 되었습니다.
and I met him several years ago.
저와는 몇 년 전에 만났습니다.
metastatic testicular cancer,
from a bone marrow transplant,
understand -- what is cancer?"
"이해 좀 시켜주세요. 암이 뭔가요?"
what we're dealing with?
이해하지 못한 채 말입니다.
without empowering somebody
알 권한을 주지 않고
in who they are as human beings
인간으로서의 그들 자신이 관여하지 않는데
any kind of thing to you.
할 수 있음을 아십니다.
to palliative care these days
모든 증거들은 절대적 확신을 가지고
people live better and live longer.
살 수 있다고 입증합니다.
out of the New England Journal of Medicine
2010년 게재된
by friends of mine, colleagues.
동료들이 한 연구입니다.
reported less pain,
통증을 덜 호소했고
더 오래 살았습니다.
would write a prescription for it.
처방전을 썼을 겁니다.
long white-coat physicians
긴 하얀 가운의 의사들은
of dealing with this,
신념이 있습니다.
all come to at some point.
삶의 마지막에 이르게 될 것입니다.
is not about dying,
죽음에 대한 것이 아닙니다.
the chapters of our lives,
써나가길 원하는지 말입니다.
needs to happen today --
필요가 있다는 겁니다.
현재 우리의 삶이고
and our grandchildren.
and everything we see.
보는 모든 것들 말입니다.
to engage with human beings,
사람과 관계를 맺고
that we will all face,
긴 여정을 변화시키고
shout and we demand
요구해야 함을 부탁드립니다.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Timothy Ihrig - Palliative care physicianTimothy Ihrig advocates for an approach to healthcare that prioritizes a patient's personal values.
Why you should listen
Dr. Timothy Ihrig, MD practices palliative medicine, caring for the most vulnerable and sickest people, and helps other providers improve the quality and value of the care they provide to this population. His work has shown how patient-centered care improves quality and length of life, and that it has significant economic benefits to patients, healthcare systems and the economy.
Ihrig is nationally recognized for his expertise in continuum population health and community-based palliative care. He holds appointments as content expert to the Accountable Care Learning Collaborative, an industry-leading healthcare innovation collaborative co-chaired by former Health and Human Services Secretary and Utah Governor Mike Leavitt and former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Mark McClellan. Ihrig is a member of the Advisory Council of the Iowa Healthcare Collaborative, a think-tank for strategies in health care quality, safety and value for the state of Iowa. He also serves as an Iowa Alternate-Delegate to the American Medical Association.
Ihrig has been an expert source for palliative care development for the Brookings Institution, and he was the sole practicing physician assisting the Iowa General Assembly in raising minimum standard requirements for Iowa physicians with respect to end-of-life care and oversight of prescriptive narcotics. He also acted as an expert clinician in support of Iowa Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment bill. He holds appointments as Clinical Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Iowa Carver School of Medicine and acts as Palliative Care clinical instructor. He is on the board of the Hospice and Palliative Care Association of Iowa, is the former chair of the Advocacy Committee and sits on the Palliative Care Advisory Committee.
Ihrig's other interests include sexuality at the end of life and global health. He served as the Medical Chair of the Health Services Committee for Empower Tanzania Incorporated, whose mission is the development of sustainable healthcare solutions in sub-Saharan Africa for individuals suffering with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-limited illnesses.
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