Ep. 451 Filling the Gaps in End-of-Life Care with Kaishauna Guidry MD

Learn how a physician creatively meets the needs of patients who don’t qualify for hospice services.

My guest Dr. Kaishauna Guidry is an author, podcaster, healthcare advocate, mentor and educator. She came to medicine and hospice later in her career and founded Mourning Dove Medical as a private mobile medical practice, serving home-bound patients at the late stages of life and she is the author of The Real Deal About Hospice: Short Stories Highlighting the Advantages of Hospice Care for Patients and Families. She discusses her path to this work, her books and podcast, and how she coaches physicians who want to begin working with hospice. Learn more about her work at her website:

mourningdovemedical.com

Get the book here

YouTube Channel

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This episode includes:

• Why Dr. G started a mobile medical practice
• Why some patients get discharged from hospice
• How Dr. G provides continuity of care for people who no longer qualify for hospice care
• How she guides people who are “pre-hospice” to do advance care planning and to be prepared for hospice when the timing is right
• How Dr. G educates physicians about working with hospice and palliative care
• What the book The Real Deal About Hospice teaches patients and their families
• Why we still need more education about hospice for the general public and the medical community
• What is the “hospice lifestyle”

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