Yale Cancer Center Invites Caregivers to Schwartz Center Rounds
For Immediate Release
Date: 1/23/06
Contact: Renee Gaudette, Yale Cancer Center: 203-785-2143
New Haven, Conn. - Yale Cancer Center will begin sponsoring monthly Schwartz Center Rounds for physicians, nurses, social workers, psychologists, physical therapists, and chaplains within the Yale Medical Center on Thursday, February 9th from 4:00-5:00 PM at Yale-New Haven Hospital in the Max Taffel room.
Moderated by Dr. William Sledge, The George D. and Esther S. Gross Professor of Psychiatry, the Rounds will provide a multidisciplinary forum where clinical caregivers have the opportunity to focus on the social, emotional, and personal aspects of patient care. The first topic of discussion will be How to Steer the Ship: When the Doctor and Patient Disagree.
For more information, please contact Dr. Kenneth Miller, Director of Supportive Care, Yale Cancer Center, at 7-2161 or by email at kenneth.d.miller@yale.edu
The Schwartz Center Rounds are a program of the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center, a non-profit organization committed to the promotion of a health care system where caregivers are compassionate, engaged, and able to spend the necessary time with patients, addressing both their medical and emotional needs. Kenneth B. Schwartz, a healthcare attorney, established the Center days before he died of lung cancer at age 40. For more information visit www.theschwartzcenter.org