Ira Byock
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629 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2019
last heard Jul 2025
Ira Byock’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Truly a pleasure to be back with you.
Yes, indeed.
Uh Alex, I'd like you to play just dropped in to see what condition my condition is in.
Who sings that again?
Kenny Rogers.
Well, you know, we're talking about goal alignment as uh key to people's quality of care, quality of life, uh with illness.
And I just thought that this kind of evoked a sense of really looking at one's condition and what the what life holds.
It's like a guaranteed earworm too.
Yeah.
for Human Caring.
For human caring.
Uh and it is a effort within Providence to align um what we do with what people want and to improve uh whole person caring.
Um, w we saw an opportunity back in 2014, frankly, to get in front of the leadership of this large Western health system and use the knowledge, attitudes, and skills of palliative care to embed within the healthcare system writ large to really turn focus from solving medical problems only.
Only to caring well for people as whole persons.
Now, just to take you back, in 2014, we all thought that uh Obamacare or the ACA was about to uh be the new model of health care across the country.
And what I had the opportunity to do in speaking to the the uh leadership, executive leadership, and board of directors of Providence was to make a big
Business case for making sure that what we're doing for our patients is what they desire and that they're making informed decisions.
The idea being that there's a business case to avoid highly burdensome and ineffective treatment and also treatments that informed patients simply do not want.
Yeah.
Yes it was.
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