Dr. Michael W. Rabow MD
Internist
1701 Divisadero St San Francisco CA, 94115About
Dr. Michael Rabow is an internist who provides primary care in the General Internal Medicine Clinic at Mount Zion and a specialist in hospice and palliative care. He is the director of the Symptom Management ...
Education and Training
University of California 1993
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Caring for bereaved patients: "All the doctors just suddenly go".
- Responding to requests for physician-assisted suicide: "These are uncharted waters for both of us... ".
- Volunteer patient advocacy: an interdisciplinary course on attending to patients at the end of life.
- Alzheimer disease: "it's okay, mama, if you want to go, it's okay".
- Practical considerations in dialysis withdrawal: "to have that option is a blessing".
- Drawing on experience: physician artwork in a course on professional development.
- Supporting family caregivers at the end of life: "they don't know what they don't know".
- Overcoming the false dichotomy of "curative" vs "palliative" care for late-stage HIV/AIDS: "let me live the way I want to live, until I can't".
- Palliative care for patients with heart failure.
- Ethnic differences in pain among outpatients with terminal and end-stage chronic illness.
- The Healer's Art: professionalism, service and mission.
- Screening the soul: communication regarding spiritual concerns among primary care physicians and seriously ill patients approaching the end of life.
- Palliative management of fatigue at the close of life: "it feels like my body is just worn out".
- Management of intractable nausea and vomiting in patients at the end of life: "I was feeling nauseous all of the time . . . nothing was working".
- The Healer's art: education in meaning and service.
Awards
- 2012 San Francisco Super Doctors
Treatments
- Chronic Pain
- Back Pain
- Pain
- Vascular Disease
Fellowships
- UCSF Medical Center, Internal Medicine 1997
- UCSF Medical Center, Internal Medicine 1997
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