Heart To Heart With Anna

Send us a textLast week we met Dr. Gil Wernovsky, a renowed pediatric cardiologist who has dedicated 30 years to treating babies born with congenital heart defects. We talked about a new approach that he designed by working collaboratively with doctors, nurses and parents. What he created was a "roadmap" for treating those babies born with the most complex heart defects. Last week we talked about why he created the roadmap, how it was similar to a maintenance program that is used for automotive care and how it was inspired by the board game Life.In today's broadcast we delve deeper into why this roadmap concept is so important. We talk about what palliative care means in a medical setting and how that term is used differently for children with heart defects than with children who have cancer. We talked about Dr. Wernovsky's passions.As a bonus, Dr. Wernovsky talked about his passion for music and how he has found that many others in the heart community share his passion for music. He intro