Planetary Health and Palliative Care; voices of indigenous peoples from marginalisation to the centre – Dr. Mhoira E. F. Leng, Scotland For too long the voices of indigenous people the world over have been relegated to the margins. Our focus as a global community has been on progress which is all too often measured in…
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Enrol for the “ASCO Palliative Care’s e-Course” offered jointly by TMH, ASCO and PCIC The Tata Memorial Hospital Department of Palliative Medicine in collaboration with American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Curriculum (PCIC ) Project is pleased to organize an ‘ASCO Palliative Care e-Course’ (APCeC). The advanced Palliative Care course…
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IAPC Academy’s online Lecture Series 5 “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” ― Albert Einstein The IAPC Academy’s online Lecture Series 5 will be on ‘Training in Palliative Care Research’ This series aims to introduce our budding researchers to the basic concepts in research. It focuses…
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Newsletter: August 2022 Edition From the President’s Desk Dear Friends, On behalf of the IAPC, I am elated to announce travel scholarships worth Rs. 1,00,000/- for IAPC Members presenting papers at IAPCON 2023. The winners of the scholarship will be selected by the Scientific Committee of IAPCON 2023. Authors of the 10 best abstracts, will…
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Music Therapy in the journey of a cancer patient – Dr. Arkanil Gain, New Delhi Cancer is one of the most feared and stigmatized diagnosis prevailing in this world. It disrupts various aspects of one’s life starting from the physical, social, psychological aberrations and their interpersonal relationships. The journey for a cancer patient and their…
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There Are Some – Mr. Harshvardhan Ghanshyam More, Kohlapur There are some, whose steady hands made,Take the incision with 15 no. blade There are some, who look for many causes,To calculate, the confusing chemo doses There are some, with caution and precaution,To decide, the fraction and dose of radiation There are some, with head in…
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Perspectives: Palliative Care Home Visit – Col. (Dr.) Nikahat Jahan, Secunderabad After serving twenty years as a specialist in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, I started training in the field of Palliative care. As a part of my training I, along with three of my colleagues, had the opportunity to join the palliative care team…
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Spreading the essence of empathy: an NGO experience in Patient Navigation – Dr. Anupama Mukherjee, Goa On a rainy evening, during a routine visit to the Medical Oncology ward at the Goa Medical College and Hospital, Goa, we chanced upon a weak yet playful boy curled up at his bed by the window-side. The nurses…
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Aravanaippu: The Rural Palliative Care Project – Dr. Harsha Singh, Coimbatore Aravanaippu is a home based palliative care initiative by the Coimbatore Cancer Foundation. Aravanaippu was born in 2019, and began its services at Karadivavi, a small village near Coimbatore, which is the birthplace of Padma Bhushan Dr Sitra Srinivasan, Founder, Coimbatore Cancer Foundation. The…
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Newsletter: July 2022 Edition From the President’s Desk Dear Friends, The IAPC extends its heartiest warm wishes to all the Palliative Care Doctors, on the occasion of National Doctors’ Day! To commemorate this day, the IAPC presents to you a compilation of the MD and DNB Doctors of Palliative Medicine from across India. We invite you to…
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