In this episode of the Liberation Lab podcast, facilitated by Ellen Dalton, Medecision’s Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing and Customer Experience Officer, sits down with Shoshana Ungerleider, MD to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting and changing end-of-life decisions, patient and care team dynamics, palliative care choices, and grief and mourning. Dr. Ungerleider is an internal medicine physician focused largely on improving the end-of-life experience for patients and their families, as well as increasing access to communications skills training for clinicians. She is the founder of End Well, a multidisciplinary community that unites design, technology, health policy, and activist initiatives to create a cultural shift in how we think about end of life.
Want to read more? Check out Dr. Underleider’s blog posts on end-of-life care in a COVID-19 environment, and why we should give ourselves permission to grieve.