Working With Your Physician

Your physician should:

• Be willing to discuss advance care planning
• Give you time to talk about your concerns
• Ask about and respect your values and decisions
• Provide clear and complete information
• Make sure that you understand important information
• Discuss future decisions, giving you time to consider and plan
• Discuss treatment options, including comfort care
• Encourage decisions that all can accept
• Provide time for you to consider different treatments
• Involve you and your family in developing your plan of care
• If there is a disagreement, encourage discussion with others
• Assist you in handling non-medical concerns
• Involve social services and/or hospice for emotional and practical support, including financial concerns
• Enlist help of chaplain or other resources to offer spiritual support
• Provide comfort care to you and your family
• Make sure you and your family knows what to expect during the dying process
• Consider both you and your family's needs as part of comfort care
• Ensure effective pain relief and symptom control
• Discuss hospice services

If you are a Munson Healthcare patient and have a compliment, concern, or complaint, please contact one of our Patient Liaisons.

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