Prognosis

Jeanne Lee

Post 95: Statistics Is Not Prognosis

Discussing prognosis can cause more anxiety than good in some...and it may relieve anxiety and the overwhelming sense of uncertainty in...

Jeanne Lee

Post 71: How Palliative Care Can Change a Life - Sliding Doors Moment #1

A “sliding doors moment” is a seemingly inconsequential moment that ultimately affects the trajectory of future events. In this post, I...

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Post 67: The Difference Between "Potential" and "Likely"

Doctors often provide best case scenarios. The best case is what they are hoping for, and it is what they feel most comfortable relaying...

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Post 38: Choosing Where, When, and How a Loved One Dies Takes Knowledge, Action, and Courage

Before I started working as a palliative care physician (read Post 1: What Exactly Does a Palliative Care Specialist Do?), I worked as a...

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Post 28: A Cloudy Crystal Ball - Predictors of Prognosis Part 3 of 3

How do you spend most of your day? "Am I dying?" This is a question I rarely hear explicitly asked. Sometimes people whose bodies and day...

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Post 26: A Cloudy Crystal Ball - Predictors of Prognosis Part 2 of 3

How has your weight changed in the past year? When a person living with serious illness or advanced disease wants a meaningful response...

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Post 24: A Cloudy Crystal Ball - Predictors of Prognosis Part 1 of 3

What do you have trouble doing now that you could easily do for yourself before? Sometimes a person with a concerning diagnosis or...

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Post 15: What's My Heaven ETA? - The Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How in Asking About Prognosis

Prognosis. Life expectancy. Survival rate. Outlook. Best case, worst case scenario. Sometimes a person does not want to know. Or it does...

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Post 9: How Terminal is Terminal?

"I'll eat whatever I want when I'm terminal." The woman next to him at the dinner party replied, "I'll drink to that. I'm going to eat,...