Timothy Ihrig: What we can do to die well
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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.
о медицинской помощи.
about the health and care
о здоровье и помощи
population in our country --
complex serious health issues.
about economics as well.
об экономике.
should scare the hell out of you --
приведёт вас в ужас.
about palliative medicine:
о паллиативной медицине —
grounded in what they value.
основанной на том, что им дорого.
и основанная на их ценностях,
live better and longer.
of my very first patient.
начать с рассказа о своём первом пациенте.
Harold, 68 years old,
68-летний мужчина — Гарольд.
and worse and worse.
that had spread to his brain.
который распространился в мозг.
to go share with Harold and his family
и его семье, чтобы рассказать им
and options of care.
news is it, sonny?"
не так ли?»
and we listened and we shared.
общались друг с другом.
that has meaning to you?
and said, "I want to go fishing."
«Я хочу пойти на рыбалку».
Гарольд пошёл рыбачить.
my training in my career,
that had led us to crisis,
to the American way of life today,
американского образа жизни,
this population, the most ill,
of the gross domestic product --
валового внутреннего продукта —
take up 15 percent of the GDP.
тратится 15% ВВП.
over the next two decades
на последующие двадцать лет
цифра составит 60% ВВП.
domestic product
with health care at that point.
every thing that we value
что нам дорого,
economy and capitalism
и капитализм
for a minute, forget the numbers.
статистику и числа.
for all these dollars we spend.
что мы получаем за наши деньги.
about six years ago,
spent by Medicare --
потраченный Medicare
the highest per capita expenditures
с самыми высокими расходами
pain, depression.
system on the planet.
система здравоохранения.
на таких пациентов,
country in the world.
and sub-Saharan African countries
и страны субсахарской Африки
as far as quality and value.
по качеству и количеству.
every day in my practice,
on your own journeys have experienced:
сталкивались с принципом:
more surgery, more whatever --
качество жизни людей.
long white-coat physicians --
люди в белых халатах,
and pathology and surgery
патологии, хирургии
across a continuum.
на душу населения.
the sickest of the sick --
в 2012 году —
at this population differently,
at a different level, a deeper level,
of the human condition than my own?
в более человечном, широком смысле.
never had to go to the hospital?
не пришлось даже идти в больницу?
and in 20 years is 60 percent of the GDP,
и через 20 лет — в 60% ВВП
by nearly 70 percent.
based on their values,
чем им было необходимо,
from diagnosis through the end of life.
от диагноза до конца жизни.
that started in her cervix,
that you hold sacred?"
because I can barely pedal a bicycle,
потому что с трудом езжу и на велосипеде.
one day at a time,"
от одного дня к другому,
other chapter of our life.
в любые другие периоды жизни».
where Richard's at day-to-day.
of end-stage lung disease.
на последней стадии рака легких.
just for the elderly,
она не только для престарелых
joining us here today.
and I met him several years ago.
я познакомился с ним несколько лет назад.
metastatic testicular cancer,
from a bone marrow transplant,
после пересадки костного мозга,
understand -- what is cancer?"
«Помогите нам понять, что такое рак».
what we're dealing with?
without empowering somebody
in who they are as human beings
вовлекая людей,
any kind of thing to you.
to palliative care these days
связанные с паллиативной помощью сегодня,
people live better and live longer.
действительно живут лучше и дольше.
out of the New England Journal of Medicine
вышла статья
by friends of mine, colleagues.
друзьями, коллегами.
reported less pain,
меньше болевых ощущений,
госпитализаций.
лекарством от рака,
would write a prescription for it.
long white-coat physicians
в белых халатах
of dealing with this,
all come to at some point.
is not about dying,
the chapters of our lives,
в страницы жизни,
needs to happen today --
не в следующем году.
and our grandchildren.
and everything we see.
to engage with human beings,
строит взаимоотношения с людьми,
that we will all face,
которым нам всем предстоит пройти
shout and we demand
во весь голос кричали и требовали
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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