8 am – 12 pm PALLIATIVE CARE WORKSHOP
The disease, the patient, and the health professional
Clinical Oncologist at Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz, in São Paulo. Master in Molecular Oncology. President of the FEMAMA Scientific Council. Coordinator of the SBOC palliative care committee.
PART 1
8 am – 10:05 am
8:00 am – 8:25 am How to explain more and apologize less? How I do it.
Difficulties and communication strategies along the patient’s journey. From BI-RADs, biopsy results, proposing surgery, potential complications and sequelae of surgery, the need for adjuvant treatment, to detecting recurrence or metastatic disease.
8:25 am – 8:50 am What are the best options for dealing with treatment adverse events and improving patient compliance?
What are the most common patient complaints and how to deal with them?
8:50 am – 9:15 am Former cancer patient forever?
How to deal with the risk of relapse and secondary neoplasms and the patients’ fear? Strategies to reintegrate them into a “normal” life routine. How to deal with fertility issues?
Graduated in medicine from UFG. Residency in gynecology-obstetrics at Complexo Hospitalar do Mandaqui – SP. Postgraduate degree in sexual therapy from FM do ABC. Title of specialist in sexual therapy by SBRASH and FEBRASGO.
9:15 am – 9:40 am What is compassion fatigue, how to identify it and how to deal with it?
When and why it happens. Is it bad? Is there anything we can do to avoid it?
Psychologist and psycho-oncologist. Master in Maternal and Child Health from the Faculty of Medicine of the Santo Amaro University. President of the Brazilian Society of Psycho-Oncology (SBPO), management 2008/2010 and current Coordinator of the SBPO Multidisciplinary Team Committee. Professor of the Psychosomatics course at IJEP.
9:40 am – 10:05 am Discussion
10:05 am – 10:35 am Coffee Break
PART 2
10:35 am – 12 pm
10:35 am – 11:00 am What’s on the other side of the diagnosis?
What are the feelings, expectations and emotions of patients and their families during the course of the disease?
Clinical oncologist with expertise in Palliative Care. Responsible for the Clinical Oncology service at the Faculty of Medicine of Botucatu - UNESP. Writer of the books: - At the End of the Corridor - The Doctor and the River - Hand in Hand: Slow Medicine's perspective on cancer patients.
11:00 am – 11:25 am Which path to choose to be the best?
How to improve communication so that it is empathetic and effective, and what are the strategies for dealing with patients (and their families) with unyielding expectations that go far beyond reality.
Full Professor (retired) from EEUSP, master's degree, doctorate and free teaching in the area of interpersonal communication. Former researcher 1A by CNPq. Author of the books: Communication has medicine; Love is the way - ways to care; Leadership in 5 acts; On the way - fragments to be better; between others.
11:25 am – 11:50 am When having conversations about life and death, what should we not say?
Communicating well does not mean communicating “everything”. How to set the limit and not exceed the patient’s wishes and expectations regarding the information they want.
Psychologist graduated from UFG, specialist in psycho-oncology from UnB, master's and doctorate in Health Sciences from UFG, psycho-oncologist and Palliative Care at Hospital Araújo Jorge.
11:50 am – 12 pm
Debates, closing remarks
