Palliative Care Service
Palliative Care Service
@ Memorial Hermann Medical Center
Palliative Medicine is both a philosophy of care and an organized, highly structured system for delivering care. The Palliative Care Service is a consult service that evaluates and treats patients requiring palliative care, pain management, and/or hospice services. The goal of Palliative Medicine is to prevent and relieve suffering, supporting the best possible quality of life for patients facing life-threatening or debilitating illness. Palliative specialists aid the patient and family through difficult decision-making associated with end-of-life issues.
Palliative care includes non-pharmacological and pharmacological management of difficult-to-treat symptom complexes with the goal of maintaining the patients’ treatment goals and his/her quality of life.
Common Symptom Complexes in Palliative Medicine:
- Pain
- Shortness of Breath
- Constipation
- Chronic Nausea
- Delirium
- Anxiety
- Fatigue
The Palliative Care consult service at Memorial Hermann Hospital is run by Dr. Grace Varas.
News & Announcements
Dr. Nasiya Ahmed
assistant professor of Medicine-geriatrics, was accepted into the prestigious Summer Institute on Aging Research sponsored by the NIA. Read More
Palliative Medicine Visiting professor.
July 29-30, 2008. Dr. Weissman is Director of the Palliative Medicine Program and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Neoplastic Diseases & Related Disorders. Read More
Cheves Smythe Visiting Lectureship in Geriatrics.
This year’s lecturer is John Morley, M.B., B.Ch., Saint Louis University and will take place on May 14, 2008. His talk is entitled, “Memories are Made of This”. He will be speaking in MSB 3.001, at 4:00 p.m. Read More
