Dr. Harvey Chochinov is teaching us how to go beyond providing healthcare to provide health-caring for the people we serve.  Patients are people before they need to engage with the healthcare system.  That personhood should be supported and validated with compassion and dignity.  Dr. Chochinov has also led a large program of research on dignity within the healthcare setting, which includes the development and study of Dignity Therapy.  As a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manitoba and a Senior Scientist at CancerCare Manitoba Research Institute, Dr. Chochinov reminds us all that “patients won’t care what you know until they know that you care.”  

Connect with Dr. Chochinov

Website:  dignityincare.ca    Virtualhospice.ca

Social media:  Twitter: @HMChochinov     LinkedIn: Harvey Max Chochinov

Purchase your copy of Dignity in Care: The Human Side of Medicine here

Information for Jennifer O’Brien

Website: jenniferaobrien.com 

Read more about Jennifer O’Brien here.

Purchase your copy of Care Boss by Jennifer O’Brien here.

Buy your copy of The Hospice Doctor’s Widow: An Art Journal of Caregiving and Grief here. 

Hospice Navigation Services is here for you.  If you have questions about hospice care or need to troubleshoot the care you’re already receiving, book a session with an expert Hospice Navigator at theheartofhospice.com.  

Connect with The Heart of Hospice Podcast and host Helen Bauer

Website:  theheartofhospice.com

Email:  helen@theheartofhospice.com

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