14-year-old Eric Piburn was born with congenital heart defects. He had four open-heart surgeries until doctors, unfortunately, ran out of treatment options.
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Dr. Michael Kearney, VNA Health’s Palliative Care associate medical director, has been at the forefront of our local Palliative Care movement in Santa Barbara County.
“Palliative Care is focused on what the patient’s needs are,” shares Dr. Kearney. “Yes, the diagnosis or prognosis is important, but that is not our focus. It is about helping the patient feel better, to manage their physical and non-physical symptoms. If they feel well physically, psychologically and spiritually, then their quality of life improves.”
Dr. Kearney’s first experience with palliative care and hospice care was as a medical student in the 1970s.
retired rear admiral john kirby, a cnn and diplomatic analyst as well as julie hirsch feld-davis. julie, let s start with you. you heard pam summing up beautifully this back and forth between the chinese and american sides and what i can only describe as whiplash in just the span of a few days. we heard the president call xi jinping an enemy and a few days later a great leader. what do you make of that? well, i think what we saw just now at the g-7 was the president really trying to sort of apply some sort of rationale to the whipsawing that we ve seen the last few days as if it was deliberate, that he was going back and forth and he s gotten somewhere. he s trying very hard to take credit for what he says has been progress in these talks in the last couple of days, when what the rest of the world is seeing and the rest of the people around that table at the g-7 are
julie, is it outlandish to think that this conversation actually took place in the white house? i think the striking thing is it s not that outlandish to me given what we constantly hear from administration officials, from people inside the white house and outside of the white house, people on capitol hill. the president does tend to muse allowed about some of these very strange ideas. he gets very keyed up, especially where technology and science and gadgets are concerned. you hear him voicing things that other presidents might perhaps at least take pause in saying out loud. john, you re shaking your head. i can t even believe that we re talking about this on television. it s so crazy. i m speechless. all right. let s leave it there. rear admiral john kirby, julie herrishfield-davis, thank you. wait, there is more. why didn t the president show up to a meeting on the climate crisis? how a picture completely contradicts the white house s excuse. plus, the president floats
he likes to blame obama for everything and paurmt rt of his foreign policy is about undoing the things that president obama did. look, it was an international community decision to isolate russia and make russia have some measure of accountability for doing this. putin doesn t care about not being in the g-8 but what he does care about are the sanctions. to the trump adminisration s credit, they have extended the sanctions president obama put on russia and the rest of the international community has as well. that s what s important here is not him blaming obama and the ridiculous thing about being outsmarted but how much and to what degree will the west continue to hold putin accountable for his violation of ukrainian territorial integrity. julie, when you look at these last few days and step back and look at all of these issues, and climate change, does it really emphasize how isolated the u.s. is compared to with regards to its allies? i think so.