Guest: Timothy Ihrig, MD, Palliative Care Physician and CEO of Ihrig MD & Associates The end comes for all of us. Some, like 100-year-old Robert Allman in Tennessee, will have a surprising number of years to check things off our bucket list:...
When Dr. Tim Ihrig crosses the threshold of the Avelleyras home in Fort Dodge, Iowa, he steps over a doormat that says, “One nice person and one old grouch live here.” It doesn’t take long to figure out who the nice person is...
Palliative care reduces hospitalization rates and 30-day readmission rates while decreasing per capita health care expenditures. Dr. Tim Ihrig – MD, MA It is a most interesting phenomenon to be a resident of Iowa during a presidential election...
I came to this industry very late. I started medical school in my early 30s. I wanted to be a professional bicycle racer. I eked out a very meager living as an amateur rider for several years. I got tired of seeing Mr. [Lance] Armstrong’s backside...
The healthcare industry in America is so focused on pathology, surgery and pharmacology — on what doctors “do” to patients — that it often overlooks the values of the human beings it’s supposed to care for. in his TED...