Jessica Zitter

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The Nocturnists · The Growing Caregiving Crisis with Jessica Zitter, MD · 9 Feb 2021 podcast

Everything's so siloed and so separate and so specialized, which is what's gotten us into this place that we're in right now.

I say, you know, a lot of times that...

Almost nothing, I'm sure a lot of ICU doctors are going to disagree with this, but I think almost nothing is an emergency enough that you can't try to have some kind of an interaction before putting things into people.

Of course, there are times when there's an emergency and you just don't have that time and it happens plenty, but I think really not everything is an emergency and it's hard.

There are times when your pager is just going off too much and you frankly just need to do that next line and not talk about it too much.

One of the things that I would want for our healthcare system is to always have an interprofessional component to everything we do.

Because if you're the ICU attending, if you're a hospitalist, if you're a palliative care person, doctor, nurse, whatever, the palliative care team already knows.

They have that philosophy going.

that it's a conversation, it's a reflection.

But every other place in the hospital doesn't have that.

And we have this one person whose pager keeps going off, who's stressed.

And how the heck can that person really pull themselves together to stay in that moment and really help somebody make the right decisions for them?

So for me, the word interprofessional is getting floated around all over the place these days, and I'm thrilled about it.

But we need to put some money where our mouths are and really start to create teams of people who are there to support the decision-making process and not just lay it on one person whose pager keeps going off.

Bambi was actually a member of my synagogue.

I would see her sitting up a few rows in front of me most Saturdays.

She had this big, thick braid of hair that would go way down her back.

And she was just this sweet, chipper, wonderful person.

And she actually was also a physician assistant at the same hospital as me in the urology department.

But I didn't know her from there.

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