Mike Rabow's guest appearances

Mike Rabow

GeriPal

The Health Design Podcast

Michael Fratkin

BJ Miller

Diana Anderson

Sunita Puri

Mark Lewis

Cheryl Janis

Andy Cohen

Ronald Epstein

Aaron Kesselheim

Louise Aronson

Dan Gordon

Katherine Leon

Amit Goyal

Haider Warraich

Lewis Cohen

OwlTail

Michael W. Rabow, MD, FAAHPM, the Helen Diller Family Chair in Palliative Care, is a Professor of Clinical Medicine and Urology at UCSF.  He is the Associate Chief of Education &amp; Mentoring in the Division of Palliative Medicine in the Department of Medicine, and the Medical Director of Palliative Care at UCSF’s Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (https://cancer.ucsf.edu/people/profiles/rabow_michael.3627). Board-certified in internal medicine and hospice &amp; palliative care, Dr. Rabow directs a leading outpatient palliative care program-- the Symptom Management Service.  In addition, Dr. Rabow is a member of UCSF’s Academy of Medical Educators and is the Founding Director of the MERI Center for Education in Palliative Care at UCSF/Mount Zion (https://meri.ucsf.edu). Dr. Rabow was the winner of the 2017 AAHPM PDIA National Palliative Care Leadership Award. He is a past recipient of the Soros Project on Death in America award and the Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Award.

Michael W. Rabow, MD, FAAHPM, the Helen Diller Family Chair in Palliative Care, is a Professor of Clinical Medicine and Urology at UCSF. He is the Associate Chief of Education &amp; Mentoring in the Division of Palliative Medicine in the Department of Medicine, and the Medical Director of Palliative Care at UCSF’s Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (<a href="https://cancer.ucsf.edu/people/profiles/rabow_michael.3627" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://cancer.ucsf.edu/people/profiles/rabow_michael.3627</a>). Board-certified in internal medicine and hospice &amp; palliative care, Dr. Rabow directs a leading outpatient palliative care program-- the Symptom Management Service. In addition, Dr. Rabow is a member of UCSF’s Academy of Medical Educators and is the Founding Director of the MERI Center for Education in Palliative Care at UCSF/Mount Zion (<a href="https://meri.ucsf.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://meri.ucsf.edu</a>). Dr. Rabow was the winner of the 2017 AAHPM PDIA National Palliative Care Leadership Award. He is a past recipient of the Soros Project on Death in America award and the Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Award.

Mike Rabow, Professor of Clinical Medicine and Urology at UCSF

In celebration of  National Poetry Month, we are delighted to share with you the second podcast in our series on poetry and medicine.  In the first podcast, we talked with Guy Micco and Marilyn MacEntyre about  poetry and aging. In this second part in our series, we welcome Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar to talk about palliative care and poetry.   As with aging, poetry operates on multiple levels within the palliative care space.   Poetry puts us in our patient’s shoes. As Redwing’s poem says, “why not live as long as possible?”   Poetry holds us in that liminal space so many of our patients are in. Paradox.  The impossiblity which is life, which is everything, and death, which is the end of life. As  Mary Oliver tells us In Blackwater Woods, and I’m paraphrasing here, we must to hold it to our bones, knowing our lives depend on it, and when the time comes, to let it go. To let it go.   Or as in Mark Nepo’s poem Adrift, I am so sad and everything is beautiful. Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness.  Redwing, who is a cancer survivor, shares poems about her experiences with cancer.  Mike Rabow shares his  award winning  poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis.   We talk not only about reading poetry, but also writing poetry, and using poetry in medical education as a healing modality. And along the way, we really felt like we got to the heart of things.  To the deeper emotions - of loss and grief, of wonder and transcendence - that are at the heart of the complex care we provide. -@AlexSmithMD   Links to Redwing’s poetry workshops:  Food for Thought Poetry for Resiliency   Loss, Losing  and Loosening, poetry for grief and loss    Wounded Healer poetry sessions   Advance Care Planning  Links to Redwing Keyssar’s  poetry collections   Redwing’s website: www.redwingkeyssar.com Institute for Poetic Medicine  Mike Rabow’s Comprehensive Care Team randomized trial of outpatient palliative care  Look also for a forthcoming article by Mike and Redwing in Journal of Pain and Symptom Management on poetry as a healing modality, to be published mid May (will add link when out). In addition to Redwing’s own songs and poems, other poems read by Mike and Redwing during the podcast:  In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver  Therapy by John Wright Adrift by Mark Nepo  Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg Late Fragment by Raymond Carver

In celebration of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/books/review/what-is-poetry.html?campaign_id=57&amp;emc=edit_ne_20220415&amp;instance_id=58666&amp;nl=evening-briefing®i_id=97393835&amp;segment_id=89400&amp;te=1&amp;user_id=ab6f0301fdb35443cccdf6afe0be5284" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> National Poetry Month</a>, we are delighted to share with you the second podcast in our series on poetry and medicine.  In the first podcast, we talked with Guy Micco and Marilyn MacEntyre about <a href="https://geripal.org/poetry-about-aging-marilyn-mcentyre-and-guy-micco/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> poetry and aging</a>. In this second part in our series, we welcome Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar to talk about palliative care and poetry.   As with aging, poetry operates on multiple levels within the palliative care space.   Poetry puts us in our patient’s shoes. As Redwing’s poem says, “why not live as long as possible?”   Poetry holds us in that liminal space so many of our patients are in. Paradox.  The impossiblity which is life, which is everything, and death, which is the end of life. As <a href="https://apoemaday.tumblr.com/post/652534824201027584/in-blackwater-woods" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Mary Oliver tells us In Blackwater Woods</a>, and I’m paraphrasing here, we must to hold it to our bones, knowing our lives depend on it, and when the time comes, to let it go. To let it go.   Or as in Mark Nepo’s poem Adrift, I am so sad and everything is beautiful. Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness.  Redwing, who is a cancer survivor, shares poems about her experiences with cancer.  Mike Rabow shares his <a href="https://med.stanford.edu/medicineandthemuse/events/paul-kalanithi-essay-contest.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> award</a> winning <a href="https://meri.ucsf.edu/blog/my-hesitant-communication-tip" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> poem</a> about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis.   We talk not only about reading poetry, but also writing poetry, and using poetry in medical education as a healing modality. And along the way, we really felt like we got to the heart of things.  To the deeper emotions - of loss and grief, of wonder and transcendence - that are at the heart of the complex care we provide. -@AlexSmithMD  Links to Redwing’s poetry workshops: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/food-for-thought-a-poetry-cafe-tickets-100839485616" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Food for Thought Poetry for Resiliency </a> <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/loss-losing-loosening-exploring-grief-healing-through-poem-making-tickets-111991595878" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Loss, Losing  and Loosening, poetry for grief and loss  </a> <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetic-medicine-for-the-wounded-healer-registration-141176405429" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Wounded Healer poetry sessions </a> <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/what-matters-most-2-part-online-advance-directive-workshop-registration-113011083192" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Advance Care Planning</a> Links to Redwing Keyssar’s <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ESoe7jzEJzA46bdNI2Y7rNvDNCUao4ky" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> poetry collections </a> Redwing’s website: <a href="http://www.redwingkeyssar.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.redwingkeyssar.com</a> <a href="https://poeticmedicine.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Institute for Poetic Medicine</a> <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/216477" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Mike Rabow’s Comprehensive Care Team randomized trial of outpatient palliative care</a> Look also for a forthcoming article by Mike and Redwing in Journal of Pain and Symptom Management on poetry as a healing modality, to be published mid May (will add link when out). In addition to Redwing’s own songs and poems, other poems read by Mike and Redwing during the podcast: <a href="https://apoemaday.tumblr.com/post/652534824201027584/in-blackwater-woods" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver</a> <a href="https://utmedhumanities.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/therapy-john-wright/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Therapy by John Wright</a> <a href="https://gratefulness.org/resource/adrift/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Adrift by Mark Nepo</a> <a href="https://www.elizabeth-berg.net/books/talk-before-sleep/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg</a> <a href="https://allpoetry.com/late-fragment" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Late Fragment by Raymond Carver</a>

Poetry & Palliative Care: Podcast with Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar

Helen Diller

Mike Rabow, Helen Diller Family Chair in Palliative Car