Having Difficult Conversations

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Beyond The Clinic: Living Well With Melanoma

AIM at Melanoma Foundation

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Beyond the Clinic: Living Well With Melanoma features fresh perspectives into topics seldom discussed in the exam room. Director of Cancer Survivorship for Kaiser Permanente San Francisco, Raymond Liu, MD, hosts the Beyond the Clinic podcast featuring unfiltered discussions with researchers, caregivers, patients, and medical professionals. Each episode pulls back the curtain to share advice on handling life after a melanoma diagnosis and how to ride the emotional rollercoaster that often follows.

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Having Difficult Conversations

Beyond The Clinic: Living Well With Melanoma

28 minutes 53 seconds

1 year ago

Having Difficult Conversations

In this episode, we unlock one of the most challenging aspects of the cancer journey — having difficult conversations. Whether you're a caregiver, a patient in the throes of treatment, or a survivor navigating life after cancer, this episode is for you.

Our guest, Bridget Sumser, LCSW, a Clinical Social Worker, offers insights, guidance, and support on how to approach, engage in, and emerge stronger from the conversations that matter most. Our unique angle isn't just about what to say, but how to say it, starting from a place of empathy, compassion, and understanding.

We understand the power of language and its impact on healing, connection, and resilience. We'll guide you in creating a space where difficult dialogues can lead to deeper connections, providing comfort and support when it's needed most.

Whether it's discussing prognosis, treatment options, or simply how the day feels, this episode brings you strategies, perspectives, and the reassurance that you're not alone. Join us as we tackle the tough talk with tenderness, making room for what truly matters in the heart of the cancer experience.

ABOUT our GUEST

Bridget Sumser Clinical Social Worker, Palliative Care Service

Bridget Sumser is a health educator, her research and academic work centers on palliative care education. This includes implementing courses and strategies that bring together members of various professions as well as studying how different specialists can best integrate palliative care principles and techniques into their practices. She also investigates how palliative care practices — both primary and specialty — are learned by social workers.

Sumser earned her master's degree at the New York University Silver School of Social Work, where she also completed a Zelda Foster fellowship in palliative and end-of-life care. She also completed a palliative care social work fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in New York.

Sumser is a member of the Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network, which honored her at its annual assembly in 2015 as an Emerging Leader in Palliative Social Work.