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Jessica Zitter, MD, MPH, specializes in Critical Care and Palliative Care medicine, and practices at a public hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life. Her essays and articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and other publications. Her work is featured in the Oscar and Emmy-nominated documentary, Extremis, as well as her ilm, Caregiver: A Love Story. Which you can view virtually. She is a nationally recognized speaker on the topic of dying in America. Dr Zitter is also a fierce advocate for raising awareness of the difficulties family caregivers have through their caregiving journey and even turned the tables on me, in this interview.

Learn about the current crisis in family caregiving and what you can do to help. My guest Dr. Jessica Zitter is a specialist in Critical Care and Palliative Care medicine and the author of the book Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life. Her work is featured in the documentary Extremis… Continue reading Ep. 340 Caregiver Crisis: Meeting the Needs of the Future with Jessica Zitter MD

Jessica Zitter, MD, MPH, specializes in Critical Care and Palliative Care medicine, and practices at a public hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life. Her essays and articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and other publications. Her work is featured in the Oscar and Emmy-nominated documentary, Extremis, as well as her ilm, Caregiver: A Love Story. Which you can view virtually. She is a nationally recognized speaker on the topic of dying in America. Dr Zitter is also a fierce advocate for raising awareness of the difficulties family caregivers have throught their caregiving journey and even turned the tables on me, in this interview. 

Dr. Jessica Zitter practices ICU and Palliative Care in Oakland, California. Her work is featured in the Oscar and Emmy-nominated short documentary, Extremis, now streaming on Netflix. She is also the author of Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life, and her essays and articles have appeared in the “New York Times”, “The Atlantic”, “The Huffington Post”, to name just a few. Her latest film is Caregiver: A Love Story. Check out her website at www.jessicazitter.com. Check out https://copenotes.com/zestful for an innovative app that supports mental health. Find out more about the Zestful Aging Podcast at ZestfulAging.com

Dr. Jessica Zitter works at Highland Hospital, a public hospital in Oakland, where she specializes in critical and palliative care medicine. She says having hard conversations about our end-of-life wishes can transform our fears about death into hope about life. We meet several people she's helped guide through the process of talking about death, including a grocery store worker in LA who got sick with COVID, an Oakland man hospitalized with serious lung disease who struggles to face his own mortality, and a son who had to watch his 92-year-old father die of COVID far away from family, alone in a hospital bed. Dr. Zitter is the author of “Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life.” 

Dr. Jessica Zitter is an advocate and an activist for quality care of terminally ill patients.  Trained at Harvard and UCSF, Dr. Zitter works in Critical Care and Palliative medicine.  It’s an unusual pairing which has given her exceptional insight into how the dying are treated.  She’s the author of Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life, and her work is featured in the Academy and Emmy-nominated short documentary “Extremis,” available on Netflix.  Dr. Zitter acknowledges that hospice “first responders” will respond with the dedication they always have, but the added stress from the pandemic will have lasting effects on us.  She calls on end of life professionals to draw on their energy reserves to provide the best care to patients, and to practice self compassion.  You can find Dr. Zitter’s work and her writing on jessicazitter.com. And remember The Heart of Hospice is here to support you 24/7.  You’ll find us at theheartofhospice.com.  You are not alone.  Your journeys matters.

Our special guest on today's podcast is Dr. Jessica Zitter, MD, MPH.  According to Dr. Zitter's website www.jessicazitter.com, she is a “national advocate for transforming the way people die in America.”  Harvard and UCSF-trained, Dr. Zitter is a hybrid type of doctor, practicing in both critical care and palliative care medicine.  She works as an Attending Physician in Oakland, California. Dr. Zitter and the work she does was featured in “Extremis”, a documentary available on Netflix and nominated for Academy and Emmy awards. Dr. Zitter is the author of Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life, a contributor to The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time Magazine, Journal of the American Medical Association, The Washington Post and many other publications.  Jerry and Helen talked with Jessica about her work in the end of life care industry. Her dedication and passion about the quality of care for seriously ill patients is tangible. You can find more about Dr. Zitter's work on www.jessicazitter.com and watch the trailer for Extremis. Get to know more about The Heart of Hospice and our mission by visiting theheartofhospice.com. You'll find support, encouragement, and information for both paid and unpaid caregivers.  No matter who you are, or where you are in your hospice journey, you are The Heart of Hospice.

Today on Feisworld, I’m joined by palliative care doctor, speaker and educator Dr. Jessica Zitter. Dr. Zitter is a national advocate for transforming the way people die in America and is the author of the newly released book Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life. Her work is also featured in the Academy and Emmy-nominated short documentary “Extremis,” available on Netflix. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/feisworld/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/feisworld/support

What do you want the end of your life to look like? If you haven't considered this, and talked about your wishes with your loved ones, you should. If you don't, you risk ending up on the "end of life conveyor belt". A situation that occurs when your family members can't agree about what you would want when you can't speak for yourself, they can't let you go, and when physicians offer the next treatment modality (because that's how they're trained and it's available), and don't know how to say no.  Not a good thing, unless that's what you want. Where all stops are pulled, every last ditch attempted. Even in a futile situation. Dr. Jessica Zitteris an ICU physician with years of experience. She comes from a family of physicians trained to treat and cure. It took an ICU nurse colleague, Pat Murphy RN,  accusing her of "torturing" a patient to start her evolution. She began to understand that just because treatment modalities are available, it is not always in the best interests of the patient. That the need to prolong life at any cost is not necessarily a good thing, unless the patient has expressed these wishes. And if they haven't, this leaves everyone else trying to do the right thing. Which can balloon into the wrong thing. Dr. Zitter believes that this conversation needs to begin in high school. She is a proponent of Sex Ed and Death Ed. That the conversation starts in adolescence, and a person's wishes can change over time. We both believe that the earlier these conversations occur, the more likely that a culture shift can occur and we can stop this "conveyor belt" for those that want to get off (or not get on in the first place).  She offers resources to help you sort this out. Extremisis a documentary, currently on Netflix, which follows 2 families through the process of decision making for their loved ones who are intubated in the ICU. It is a raw account of the families and professional caregivers struggles to make the right decisions for the patient. It's a very real picture of what goes on every day when conversations haven't been had, and documented, as well as an excellent visual about the necessity of advanced care planning. Dr. Zitter's book, Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life     offers stories of patient/family ICU experiences, as well as  valuable tools in the appendices for guidance to help you process this information and develop your own advanced care plan. Other resources she mentions: Vital Decisions, a  company whose mission is to be the force, the catalyst in this country, to fundamentally change how individuals are cared for during an advanced illness. Serious Illness Care , a joint health system innovation center working to save lives and reduce suffering, started by Atul Gawande The goal is that everyone gets the opportunity to live the way they want to live, all the way to the end. Our job as health care providers should be to help family members navigate the process, based on their loved ones wishes. Because with the advances of technology, there will always be that one next thing. The issue is, would you want us to go there for you...

As a critical care doctor, Jessica Zitter has seen plenty of “Hail Mary” attempts to save dying patients go bad—attempts where doctors try interventions that don’t change the outcome, but do lead to more patient suffering. It’s left her distrustful of flashy medical technology and a culture that insists that more treatment is always better. But when a new patient goes into cardiac arrest, the case doesn’t play out the way Jessica expected. She finds herself fighting for hours to revive him—and reaching for a game-changing technology that uncomfortably blurs the lines between life and death.    Resources Talking about end-of-life stuff can be hard! Here are some resources to get you started. (Adapted from Jessica Zitter’s Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life. Thanks Jessica!)   I want to…  ...figure out what kind of care I might want at end of life: Prepare uses videos of people thinking about their end-of-life preferences to walk you through the steps for choosing a surrogate decision maker, determining your preferences, etc.  ...talk with family/friends about my preferences (or theirs!): The Conversation Project offers a starter kit and tools to help start the conversation.  ...put my preferences in writing (an advance directive):  Advance Directive forms connects you to advance directive forms for your state.  My Directives For those who like their documents in app form! Guides you through creating an end-of-life plan, then stores it in the cloud so it’s accessible anywhere.  Guests Jessica Nutik Zitter, MD, MPH, Author and Attending Physician, Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care and Palliative Care Medicine, Highland Hospital Thomas Frohlich, MD, Chief of Cardiology, Highland Hospital Kenneth Prager, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director of Clinical Ethics, Columbia University Medical Center Daniela Lamas, MD, author and Associate Faculty at Ariadne Labs David Casarett MD, author and Chief of Palliative Care, Duke University School of Medicine   Footnotes Read the books: Jessica Zitter’s book is Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life. Daniela Lamas’s book is You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor’s Stories of Life, Death, and In Between. David Casarett’s book is Shocked: Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently Dead Read the memoirs of Amsterdam’s “Society in Favor of Drowned Persons,” the Dutch group that tried to resuscitate drowning victims (including Anne Wortman) Learn more about ECMO, its success rates, and the ethical questions it raises (Daniela also wrote an article about it here) Read Daniela’s study about quality of life in long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs). And for an introduction to LTACHs, here’s an overview from The New York Times Watch Extremis, the Oscar-nominated documentary (featuring Jessica Zitter), about families facing end-of-life decisions in Highland Hospital’s ICU. Read some of Dr. Zitter’s articles about life support tech (here and here) and the tough decisions doctors and patients face in the ICU (here and here)   Credits This episode of Undiscovered was reported and produced by Annie Minoff and Elah Feder. Editing by Christopher Intagliata. Original music by Daniel Peterschmidt. Fact-checking help from Michelle Harris. Our theme music is by I Am Robot And Proud. Our mid-break theme for this episode, “No Turning Back,” is by Daniel Peterschmidt and I am Robot and Proud. Thanks to the entire Science Friday staff, the folks at WNYC Studios, and CUNY’s Sarah Fishman. Special thanks to Michele Kassemos of UCSF Medical Center, Lorna Fernandes of Highland Hospital, and the entire staff at Highland.

As a critical care doctor, Jessica Zitter has seen plenty of “Hail Mary” attempts to save dying patients go bad—attempts where doctors try interventions that don’t change the outcome, but do lead to more patient suffering. It’s left her distrustful of flashy medical technology and a culture that insists that more treatment is always better. But when a new patient goes into cardiac arrest, the case doesn’t play out the way Jessica expected. She finds herself fighting for hours to revive him—and reaching for a game-changing technology that uncomfortably blurs the lines between life and death.    Resources Talking about end-of-life stuff can be hard! Here are some resources to get you started. (Adapted from Jessica Zitter’s Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life. Thanks Jessica!)   I want to…  ...figure out what kind of care I might want at end of life: Prepare uses videos of people thinking about their end-of-life preferences to walk you through the steps for choosing a surrogate decision maker, determining your preferences, etc.  ...talk with family/friends about my preferences (or theirs!): The Conversation Project offers a starter kit and tools to help start the conversation.  ...put my preferences in writing (an advance directive):  Advance Directive forms connects you to advance directive forms for your state.  My Directives For those who like their documents in app form! Guides you through creating an end-of-life plan, then stores it in the cloud so it’s accessible anywhere.  Guests Jessica Nutik Zitter, MD, MPH, Author and Attending Physician, Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care and Palliative Care Medicine, Highland Hospital Thomas Frohlich, MD, Chief of Cardiology, Highland Hospital Kenneth Prager, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director of Clinical Ethics, Columbia University Medical Center Daniela Lamas, MD, author and Associate Faculty at Ariadne Labs David Casarett MD, author and Chief of Palliative Care, Duke University School of Medicine   Footnotes Read the books: Jessica Zitter’s book is Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life. Daniela Lamas’s book is You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor’s Stories of Life, Death, and In Between. David Casarett’s book is Shocked: Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently Dead Read the memoirs of Amsterdam’s “Society in Favor of Drowned Persons,” the Dutch group that tried to resuscitate drowning victims (including Anne Wortman) Learn more about ECMO, its success rates, and the ethical questions it raises (Daniela also wrote an article about it here) Read Daniela’s study about quality of life in long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs). And for an introduction to LTACHs, here’s an overview from The New York Times Watch Extremis, the Oscar-nominated documentary (featuring Jessica Zitter), about families facing end-of-life decisions in Highland Hospital’s ICU. Read some of Dr. Zitter’s articles about life support tech (here and here) and the tough decisions doctors and patients face in the ICU (here and here)   Credits This episode of Undiscovered was reported and produced by Annie Minoff and Elah Feder. Editing by Christopher Intagliata. Original music by Daniel Peterschmidt. Fact-checking help from Michelle Harris. Our theme music is by I Am Robot And Proud. Our mid-break theme for this episode, “No Turning Back,” is by Daniel Peterschmidt and I am Robot and Proud. Thanks to the entire Science Friday staff, the folks at WNYC Studios, and CUNY’s Sarah Fishman. Special thanks to Michele Kassemos of UCSF Medical Center, Lorna Fernandes of Highland Hospital, and the entire staff at Highland.

In this episode of Life/Death/Law, Dr. Jessica Zitter, author of Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life, talks openly and honestly about how to communicate with your doctors about what you or a loved one wants, and doesn't want, for end of life care; how to pick the right person to act as your health care agent and make medical decisions for you; and what palliative care can offer those facing chronic illness. But more than that, she is a compassionate and articulate voice for changing the way that people die in this country and the role that the medical profession can play in improving end of life care. I loved talking to her and I think you'll love listening. She is Harvard and UCSF-trained to practice the unusual combination of Critical and Palliative Care medicine.  She works as an Attending Physician at a public hospital in Oakland, California. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times and her articles have appeared in The Atlantic, Time Magazine, Journal of the American Medical Association, The Washington Post and many other publications. Dr. Zitter’s work is featured in the Academy and Emmy-nominated short documentary “Extremis,” available on Netflix. Her media appearances include CBS Sunday Morning, NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, The Doctors, The Leonard Lopate Show, and a Dr. Oz special, “The Death Show.” If you've ever been frustrated with a doctor that doesn't listen to you and wondered how to talk to them effectively, or worried about who to name as your health care agent, or are interested in finding out more about palliative care, please listen to this episode. To learn more about Dr. Zitter, please go to her website., www.jessicazitter.com. Please follow me at: Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifedeathlaw Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LizaHanksAuthor LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizahanks

David is joined by Dr. Jessica Zitter, a national advocate for transforming the way people die in America and author of the newly released Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life. Enjoy the conversation as David and Dr. Jessica discuss procedures and tips to change the way we treat the dying.

Dr. Jessica Zitter, MD, MPH, is committed to changing the current paradigm of end-of-life medical decision-making. In today’s medical culture, the dying are often put on what she calls the “End-of-Life Conveyor Belt.” They are intubated, catheterized, and die attached to machines, frequently without even knowing they are dying.In her work, Zitter builds bridges between patients and the healthcare team, striving to offer care aligned with each patient’s values and preferences. She has come to see that patients empowered with knowledge can die well, even beautifully.Dr. Zitter practices the unusual combination of Critical and Palliative Care medicine at Highland Hospital, a public hospital in Oakland, Calif. She attended Stanford University and Case Western Reserve University Medical School and earned her masters in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley. Her medical training includes an Internal Medicine residency at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and a fellowship in Pulmonary/Critical Care at the University of California, San Francisco. She is also co-founder of Vital Decisions, a telephone-based counseling service for patients with life-limiting illness.Dr. Zitter is the author of Extreme Measures – Finding a Better Path to the End of Life, due to publish this month. She is a regular contributor to The New York Timesand her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Huffington Post, Pacific Standard,JAMA, andThe Journal of the American Medical Association. She is featured in the short documentary Extremis, which won top honors at the Tribeca and San Francisco International Film Festivals now streaming on Netflix.She lives in Oakland with her husband, three children, and two dogs.http://jessicazitter.com/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJiY8duVgz0 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

People will delay talking about end-of-life care as long as possible even while acknowledging its importance. For the most part, none of us wants to deal with our mortality. Yet, this is a crucial topic for us to think through as individuals and to discuss with our families and medical team. Our guest and guide for this topic is Dr. Jessica Nutik Zitter, an expert on the medical experience of death and dying, and author of Extreme Measures- Finding a Better Path to End of Life.

In her book Extreme Measures Finding a Better Path to the End of Life, Dr. Jessica Zitter sheds light on how both patients and their doctors face medical decisions before death is imminent. For patients and loved ones, speaking up and asking questions about medical procedures can make the difference between feeling scared and feeling empowered. For physicians, talking directly to a patient about death is a skill as important as any surgical technique. Yet most doctors have no formal training in how to do it. Join Arian to find out more about one woman s quest to transform the field of palliative medicine, one conversation at a time. http jessicazitter.com https www.youtube.com watch v TJiY8duVgz0

We talk with Dr. Jessica Zitter, a pulmonary critical care and palliative medicine physician, and author of Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life. We talk with Jessica about her experience transitioning from being an ICU doctor to an ICU/Palliative doctor, how she is treated differently when she sees patients as an ICU attending vs a palliative care attending, the Big 3 (CPR, mechanical ventilation, and feeding tubes), and most importantly WHO she is wearing to the Oscars!