Sarguni Singh
speaker
92 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2023
last heard Oct 2023
Sarguni Singh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
So we're setting a false expectations there.
And then for the people who you do have the time and discussions with about, I'm worried that going to a nursing facility is not going to help you have the outcome that you want from a cancer perspective.
Oftentimes, you know, what, what is pitched to them is like, let's see how you do in SAR.
Like you'll follow up with your oncologist in a month and then we'll decide that
if treatment is an option, what treatment it is.
And I think that is also challenging because we don't, you know, all of the kind of claims data, larger data sets that studies that we do suggest that most people do not go on and get more treatment.
They have high mortality, high readmission rates.
But, you know, then when you're talking to the patient in their bed, you're thinking about, well, what about hospital debility?
And then the patient themselves is saying like, I'm going to sniff, I'm getting stronger.
My goal, my values are more treatment.
And so some of it is acknowledging this is what patients are also advocating for.
And so how do we honor that as we think about kind of palliative rehab?
And so some of your
Yeah.
And I think the inadequacies of the Medicare hospice benefit really come into play here because a lot of times people are not sure if they want to get more cancer treatment.
Sometimes they find benefit from the blood transfusion they get once a month or the fluids they get in clinic.
And so-
I think a lot of it is, you know, we have no place else to send them.
And so we just keep kind of sending them because they're not ready for hospice.
I think, I
Showing 21–40 of 92 · page 2 of 5
← Previous
Next →