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Why don’t most doctors understand palliative care?
Because medical school doesn’t teach it well. Simple as that.
Doctors learn how to fight disease and save lives. But when cure is no longer possible, many feel lost. Patients suffer. Families feel scared. That’s exactly what Dr. Caryn Khoo Shiao Yen saw when she returned to Malaysia.
She trained at Dalhousie University in Canada, did internal medicine at Mayo Clinic, and completed her palliative fellowship at Stanford. In 2013 she came home and spent six years in the Ministry of Health, including four years leading palliative care at the National Cancer Institute. She helped write the country’s first National Palliative Care Policy. Now she’s a consultant at Sunway Medical Centre.
In this episode you’ll get a full masterclass on palliative medicine. What it really is (and isn’t). The huge gaps in what most doctors know. How any doctor can start using its principles tomorrow. How to get into the field if you want to specialize. And why this work actually makes doctors better at what they do.
Dr. Caryn is impacting healthcare differently by showing that palliative care isn’t “giving up.” It’s the most human medicine there is. Whether you’re a doctor who wants to feel more equipped with serious illness patients or someone curious about what great end-of-life care looks like, this conversation will change how you think about medicine.
Ready to learn what medical training missed? Press play.
To catch up on our previous discussion, check out our last podcast episode, where we covered ‘What Doctors Don’t Know About AI in Medicine: Dr. Melvin Speisman’. Also, don’t miss our episode on: ‘Why Healthcare is Failing Doctors (And How to Fix It) with Dr. Garbelli’ here
