Palliative Care Featured on FOX's The Resident
This season on The Resident (on FOX), palliative care and its benefits are accurately portrayed to its viewers. During a family meeting, Dr. AJ Austin learns of his mothers goals, desires, and ultimately relief when she finds out that she does not qualify for a study he was trying to enroll her in. When she is introduced to the idea of palliative care, she is happy to be focusing on what is most important to her, with pain and symptom management and quality of life at the top of the list.