Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds Titles through the Years

2004

May 10, 2004“Breaking Bad News to Patients”-Martin Broder, MD

July 19, 2004“Challenges and Pitfalls of Caring for Health Professionals and/or Their Families”-Martin Broder, MD

September 23, 2004“Good Deaths for Children”-Martin Broder, MD

November 8, 2004“Initiating Life Support”-Martin Broder, MD

Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds Titles through the Years

2005

January 3, 2005“Decision-Making in the Face of Uncertainty”-Tom Campfield, MD

February 14, 2005“When Culture, Language, and Family Frustrate Decision-Making”-Wilson Mertens, MD, Shamshad Sheikh – Chaplain to Mount Holyoke College, Aida Mansoor – from Hartford Seminary – Muslim Educator

March 28, 2005“Medical Errors”-Maura Brennan, MD; Jim Frank, MD; Evan Benjamin, MD

April 11, 2005“Keeping Cool Under Fire: Dealing With Angry Families”-Martin I. Broder, MD

Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds Titles through the Years

2005

May 9, 2005“Ethical Issues Concerning Transplantation Organs From An Anencephalic Fetus”-Martin Broder, MD

June 6, 2005“Beyond the White Coat and Johnnie: What Makes for a Compassionate Patient-Caregiver Relationship”-Martin Broder, MD

August 15, 2005“International Perspectives on Teamwork, Communications, and Decision-Making in Health Care”-Martin Broder, MD

Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds Titles through the Years

2005

September 12, 2005“Challenges in Contemporary HIV Care”-Martin I. Broder, MD

October 24, 2005“Caring for Sickle Cell Patients: More Than Pain Medicine”-Martin I. Broder, MD

November 21, 2005“The Challenge of Caring for Those Who Harm Others”-Martin I. Broder, MD

December 19, 2005“Trainees on the Care Team and Patients’ Fears” -Martin I. Broder, MD

Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds Titles through the Years

2006

January 30, 2006“If your heart stops, should we restart it? – How to Discuss CPR”-Martin Broder, MD

February 27, 2006“Double Trouble – Who’s In Charge Here?”-Martin Broder, MD

March 27, 2006“Caring for the Obese – Are there Special Challenges?”-Martin Broder, MD

April 24, 2006“Focus in the Midst of Chaos: Challenges in a Busy ED”-Maura Brennan, MD and Dr. David Ling

Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds Titles through the Years

2006

May 8, 2006“When Illness is in the Family: When Caregivers and Families are Patients”-Martin Broder, MD

June 5, 2006“Grieving After Death – Does It Ever End?”-Martin Broder, MD

July 17, 2006“The Other End of the Stethoscope – A Doctor Living with an Incurable Disease”-Martin Broder, MD

August 14, 2006“The Exhausting Family Member – How to Survive”-Martin Broder, MD

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2006

October 23, 2006“Laughter – The Best Medicine”-Martin Broder, MD

November 6, 2006“Competency – Does it Help or Hurt Patient Care?”

December 4, 2006“The Spiritual Dimension in Patient Care – What are the Challenges?”

Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds Titles through the Years

2007

January 29, 2007“Sexuality and Aging: Medical, Social and Ethical Considerations”

February 26, 2007“The Difficult Patient-Providing Care, Coping and Setting Boundaries”

March 26, 2007Living with the Disabilities of a Child: Challenges and Blessings for the Family and the Caregivers”

April 23, 2007“The ‘Isolated’ Foreigner-Coordinating Complex Care Between Continents”

May 21, 2007“Are We Ever Ready When One of our Own Dies?”

June 18, 2007“Chronic Disease and a Patient’s Search for Meaning”

Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds Titles through the Years

2007

July 16, 2007“When Things go Wrong: What do Patients Expect?”

October 22, 2007“Make Way for New Ducklings”

November 19, 2007“The Impact of Suicide on Caregivers and Families”

December 17, 2007“The Maternal-Fetal Conflict”

Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds Titles through the Years

2008

January 14, 2008“Hospitalists, Continuity, and Compassion”-Martin I. Broder, MD

February 11, 2008“Compassion Fatigue – When Caregivers Get Tired of Caring”-Randolph Peto, MD

March 10, 2008“She’ll Always Be Her Mother…”-Martin Broder, MD

April 14, 2008“I Want It All”-Martin Broder, MD

Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds Titles through the Years

2008

May 12, 2008“No Greater Gift”-Martin Broder, MD

June 16, 2008“Who’s in Charge Here?”-Martin Broder, MD

July 14, 2008“Rites of Passage; Helping New Caregivers as They Begin Their Training”-Martin Broder, MD

August 14, 2008“Support at the Sharp End of Medical Error”-Randolph Peto, MD

Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds Titles through the Years

2008

September 15, 2008“Is Compassionate Care Different for Patients with Dementia and Their Families?”-Martin Broder, MD

October 20, 2008“Compassionate Care and Ethics”-John O’Reilly, MD

November 10, 2008“Hello. I am your patient’s wife, and would like to join your rounds…”-Maura Brennan, MD and Paul Jodka, MD

December 8, 2008“Gratitude”-Randolph Peto, MD

Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds Titles through the Years

2009

January 12, 2009Self-disclosure: compassionate connection or self-indulgence?”-Maura Brennan, MD

February 9, 2009“Compassionate Care and Pediatric HIV”-John O’Reilly, MD

March 9, 2009“…but how can we let him/her starve or die of thirst?”-Maura Brennan, MD

April 13, 2009“Guilt, the Gift that Keeps on Giving”-Randolph Peto, MD

Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds Titles through the Years

2009

May 11, 2009“Family-centered Rounding; Encouraging Children and Families to be Members of their Health Care Team”-John O’Reilly, MD

June 8, 2009“Diagnosis Brain Death; How long do we keep this child on life support?”-John O’Reilly, MD

July 13, 2009“When Religious Advice Shifts Goals of Care”-Maura Brennan, MD

August 10, 2009“Rites of Passage – Are Patients, New Nurses, & New Residents treated compassionately in July?”-Randolph Peto, MD

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2009

September 14, 2009“When there is nowhere else to go”-John O’Reilly, MD

October 19, 2009“The Power of Stories in Compassionate Care”-Ute Schmidt, Chaplain

November 9, 2009“The Long and Winding Road . . . When a Dying Child Lingers”-John O’Reilly, MD

December 14, 2009“Full Code or Futile Code? A Hospice Patient Requests Resuscitation Despite Metastatic Lung Cancer”-Maura Brennan, MD

Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds Titles through the Years

2010

January 11, 2010“It’s more than Words: Interpreter Services as Partners in Culturally Informed Care”-John O’Reilly, MD

February 8, 2010Special Valentine’s Week Topic: “Work/Life Balance: Can you deliver compassionate care to both your patients and your spouse/family?”-Randolph Peto, MD

March 8, 2010“Compassionate Care for the Uninsured” -Jackson H. Williams, MD

Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds Titles through the Years

2010

April 12, 2010“Caring for grieving families – Compassion lies in the details!” -Ute Schmidt, Manager of Spiritual Services and Interfaith Chaplain

May 10, 2010“When patients threaten the caregiver – limits of compassionate care?” -John O’Reilly, M.D.

June 14, 2010“Taking Schwartz Rounds to the Next Level: Looking Back and Leaping Forward"Jackson Williams, MD and Joyce Smith, LICSW

July 12, 2010“CPR Discussions in Advanced Illness; Many Teams, Many Levels of Training, Many Viewpoints, Many Challenges"-Maura Brennan, MD

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2010

August 9, 2010“Patient Power” -John O’Reilly, MD

September 13, 2010“Defying the Odds: Courage, Hope, Music and the Will to Survive” -Joyce Smith, LICSW

October 4, 2010“The Pains of Managing Pain” -Michael Picchioni, MD

November 8, 2010“Passing the Torch; Fostering Compassionate Care by New Trainees” -Randy Peto, MD

Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds Titles through the Years

2010

December 13, 2010“Follow Your Heart; an Approach to Organ Donation”Sponsored by the Baystate Medical Reader’s Theater-John O’Reilly, MD

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2011

January 10, 2011Her Death Will Be On My Soul": End of Life Journey with an Iraqi Family-Jackson Williams, MD

February 14, 2011When an Abusive Patient Wears You Down -Maura Brennan, MD

March 14, 2011Eight Physicians/NPs in 24 Hours for a Dying Patient—One Son’s Journey-John O’Reilly, MD

April 11, 2011 Delirium, Distress and Delays: A Saga of Suffering for One Elder and His Family-Maura Brennan, MD

Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds Titles through the Years

2011

May 9, 2011 Compassionately Caring at the Bedside: Honoring our Nurses-John O'Reilly, MD

June 13, 2011 Medical Errors and the Emotional Impact on Caregivers, Patients, and Compassionate Care-Randolph Peto, MD

July 11, 2011 ALS Rocked My World - A BMC Patient Story-Randolph Peto, MD, MPH

August 8, 2011 I'm Just Covering..." How Fragmented Care Can Undermine Trust-Michael Picchioni, MD

Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds Titles through the Years

2011

September 12, 2011 Building the Bond: Substance-Exposed Newborns, Their Parents, and the Professionals Who Care For Them-John O’Reilly, MD, October 17, 2011 Patient and Family Centered Care Awareness Month-My Baystate Experience. What Families Say. -Jacqueline Bell, B.S. CCLS November 14, 2011What Patients Hear When We’re Not Talking to Them. -Michael Picchioni, MD December 12, 2011A Gift of Balance for 2012: Mindfulness and Appreciative Inquiry for the Busy Clinician-Randolph Peto, MD MPH

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2012

January 9th 2012OMG! Where’s the Compassion?? - What Happens when Patients are in Spiritual Crisis- Thomas Chirdo

February 13, 2012Discharges Against Medical Advice (AMA): Conflicts, Miscommunication and Stress- Stephen Ryzewicz

March 12, 2012Beyond the Chief Complaint: Understanding the Patient in the Context of his Community-Michael Picchioni, M.D., Tim Moriarty, Karen Pohlman, Xiao Chi (Tony) Zhang, Kathleen McKenna

 

Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds Titles through the Years

2012

April 9, 2012"Health Care Providers with Disabilities: Perceptions, Challenges and Rewards- John O'Reilly, Lindsey Grossman, Francis Duda, Robin Gottlieb

May 14, 2012Getting Fired by Patients or their Families-Maura Brennan, Annalee Wells, Tommie Burton

June 11, 2012Caring for Patients Who Don't Care for ThemselvesDiane Dietzen, John Landis, Jackcy Jacob

July 9, 2012"Smile, You're on Candid Camera: What Happens When the Provider-Patient Interaction is Video Recorded, With or Without Permission."- Stephen Ryzewicz, James A. Stewart

Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds Titles through the Years

2012

August 13, 2012From Our Hands to Yours: What We Have Learned about Communication with Patients- Deborah Morsi, Ronald T. Burkman, John O'Reilly

September 10, 2012"Breaking Bad News: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"Segments- Maura Brennan, Deborah Morsi

October 15, 2012He Did It His Way: From a Suicide Attempt to a Peaceful Death?- Joyce Smith, Maura Brennan, Alice P. Leveston

November 12, 2012Are We Falling Short on Treating Pain??- Diane Dietzen, April Mazzarino-Willett, Amatur Amarah

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2012

December 10, 2012Computers, Complexity, and Compassion- Jackson Williams, Maura Brennan, Stephen Ryzewicz

 

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2013

January 14, 2013Can Compassionate Communication be Prompted and Coached?- Randolph Peto (Facilitator), Cidalia Vital, Ken Parker, Janet Hartley, Nancy Kavka

February 11, 2013A Dysfunctional Family and the "Tale of Two Hospitals:" Mercy and Baystate Providers Share Insights on "The Best of Times and the Worst of Times."?- Harry Hoar III, Diane Dietzen, Maura Brennan, MD, Debra Meyer, Auras Atreya

March 11, 2013The Tale of Two Hospitals: Mercy and Baystate Providers Share Insights - "The Best of Times and the Worst of Times Part II"?- Dr. Diane Dietzen, Maura Brennan, MD, Harry Hoar III, Shawn Charest, Tracy Green

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2013

April 18, 2013BMC Senior Leaders Reflect on the Cases/Experiences that Taught Them the Most about Compassionate Care- Mark A. Keroack, Mark R. Tolosky, Maura Brennan, Maura McQueeney, Deborah Provost

May 13, 2013Compassionate Collegiality amid Religious and Cultural Diversity - Gurmukteshwar Singh, Reham Shaaban

June 10, 2013Compassion Fatigue- Are We Too Busy to Care?- John O'Reilly, MD

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2013

July 8, 2013When Tomorrow Starts Without Me: Coping with the Loss of a Colleague- Patricia Bailey-Sarnelli, Katharine O'Connell White, Maura Brennan, MD, Sandra Lyall

August 12, 2013How Many Hours into Your Shift Does Compassion Corner-Cutting Occur?- Randolph Peto

October 21, 2013Caring For Yourself After A Bad Outcome- Jackson Williams, Steven Fischel, Beth Carter, Stephen Boos, Holly Perry

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2013

November 4, 2013Curbside Consultations: Collaborations, Communications, Conundrums and Conflicts- Stephen Ryzewicz, James A. Stewart, Anita Sarro, Jeffrey Mulhern

December 9, 2013Compassionate Caregiving: Are there Limits?- Jackson Williams, Diane Dietzen, Christine McKiernan, Phyllis A. Rigazio, Carol Hollister, Jennifer Moccio, Bryant Benson

Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds Titles through the Years

2014

January 13, 2014"Lapses in Professionalism and Compassion: What is our Duty??- Brendan Kelly, Samuel Borden, Kevin O'Callaghan, Bryson, Christine, LaShanda Lewis

February 10, 2014What’s Your Resiliency Quotient?- Randolph Peto, Linda Krasnow, Robert Smith, Melany Thompson Wheeler, Nancy Rines, John O'Reilly, MD, Daniel L. Landry, Diane E. Tillman

March 10, 2014Transitioning to Adulthood - Stories from the Experts - the Families Coping with Complex Illnesses.- John O'Reilly, MD, Matt Sadof, Pixie Plummer, Julie Peck, Deborah Davignon, Linda A. Surprenant

Baystate Medical Center Schwartz Rounds Titles through the Years

2014

April 14, 2014The Challenges of a Difficult patient: What can we learn from another profession?- Cinnamon Desgres, Peter DePergola, Steven Fischel, Heather G. Beattie