{"id":44980,"date":"2012-05-17T12:20:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T12:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/dr-jon-hallberg-clearing-up-confusion-about-palliative-health-care.php"},"modified":"2012-05-17T12:20:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T12:20:32","slug":"dr-jon-hallberg-clearing-up-confusion-about-palliative-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/health-care\/dr-jon-hallberg-clearing-up-confusion-about-palliative-health-care.php","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Jon Hallberg: Clearing up confusion about palliative health care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>by Dr. Jon  Hallberg, Minnesota Public Radio  <\/p>\n<p>    May 16, 2012  <\/p>\n<p>            Audio player code:            <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"minnesota_general_features_2012_05_16_hallberg_20120516_64s_player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"319\" height=\"83\" src=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/www_publicradio\/tools\/media_player\/syndicate.php?name=minnesota\/general\/features\/2012\/05\/16\/hallberg_20120516_64\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe>          <\/p>\n<p>    ST. PAUL, Minn.  Palliative care is an approved medical    subspecialty that's present in 85 percent of larger hospitals.    But a new survey in the Journal of Palliative Medicine shows    that many patients and health care professionals are still    confused about the concept. Many even confuse palliative care    with euthanasia.  <\/p>\n<p>    MPR's medical analyst Dr. Jon Hallberg discussed the concept of    palliative care with Tom Crann of All Things Considered on    Wednesday. Hallberg is a physician in family medicine at the    University of Minnesota and medical director of the Mill City    Clinic.  <\/p>\n<p>    An edited transcript of that discussion is below.  <\/p>\n<p>    Crann: What is palliative care?  <\/p>\n<p>    Hallberg: The World Health Organization puts    it this way, it says that palliative care is an approach that    improves the quality of life of patients and their families    when they're facing problems associated with life-threatening    illnesses.  <\/p>\n<p>    Crann: What sort of treatments are we talking    about?  <\/p>\n<p>    Hallberg: I think the thing we all think about    immediately is pain control...But it also might include being    very short of breath, being very aware of that, and so managing    that as well.  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.mpr.org\/~r\/MPR_science\/~3\/8W8dLsPMGMc\/\" title=\"Dr. Jon Hallberg: Clearing up confusion about palliative health care\">Dr. Jon Hallberg: Clearing up confusion about palliative health care<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> by Dr. Jon Hallberg, Minnesota Public Radio May 16, 2012 Audio player code: ST.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/health-care\/dr-jon-hallberg-clearing-up-confusion-about-palliative-health-care.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}