Thomas custom

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Thomas Sitte (born May 9, 1958 in Oberlemp ) is a palliative medicine specialist and author of numerous books and publications on palliative medicine and dementia . He is one of the eight founding founders who set up the German Palliative Foundation (DPS) based in Fulda, Hesse, on May 8, 2010 . As its chairman of the board, he works with committed laypeople, specialists as well as full-time and volunteer employees to improve hospice work and palliative care for seriously ill and dying people in Germany.

Life

From 1959 to 1979 Thomas Sitte grew up in Wetzlar. From 1979 to 1986 he studied medicine at universities in Bochum, Bonn, Würzburg and Berlin. In 1986 he received his license to practice medicine .

From 1986 to 1996, Thomas Sitte trained as a specialist in anesthesiology in Nordhorn and Fulda. From 1996 to 1999 he worked as a specialist in anesthesiology at the Fulda Clinic and as a senior physician at the Lauterbach district hospital. From April 1999 to September 2009 Sitte worked as a resident doctor, and he acquired various additional medical qualifications in the fields of emergency , palliative and sports medicine , special pain therapy and basic psychosomatic care.

In November 2012, Sitte founded Pro PalliativNetz GmbH & Co. KG , of which he is also the managing director. In November 2013, Thomas Sitte received a teaching position at the Protestant University of Darmstadt . From 2014 to 2016 Thomas Sitte worked as a palliative medicine specialist in the Hamburg children's hospice " Sternenbrücke ". Since then he has been working part-time in the children's palliative care team Kleine Riesen Nordhessen and as a senior physician in the palliative care ward at the Helios St. Elisabeth Clinic in Hünfeld.

Thomas Sitte has been married to the German doctor Edelgard Ceppa-Sitte since 1984, with whom he has three adult children.

Awards and nominations

In 2016 Sitte received the Palliative Award from the German Anaesthesiology Foundation.

Since 2014 honorary membership in the trade association SAPV e. V.

In December 2013, Sitte received the state award "Social Citizenship 2013" from the Hessian state government. "State Award Social Citizen Engagement for Thomas Sitte"

In 2012 Thomas Sitte was nominated as “Doctor of the Year” for the “pulsus award”, a health award jointly awarded by the Techniker Krankenkasse and “Bild am Sonntag”. Sitte made it on the shortlist.

In March 2012, Sitte received the “Fulda Rose 2012” from Federal Minister Andrea Nahles, General Secretary of the SPD, a prize for moral courage given to non-party members by the Fulda City Association of the SPD.

In December 2011 nominated for the German Engagement Award 2011 of the German Foundation Association, shortlist for the audience award, place 8

In February 2011 Thomas Sitte was accepted by the German Society for Pain Therapy e. V. and the German Pain League e. V. honored with the "German Pain Prize 2011".

March 2008 1st prize at the German Pain and Palliative Day 2008 in Frankfurt for the poster presentation "Five years of nasal fentanyl - a success story?"

Positions

Thomas Sitte speaks out against organized or business-like aiding and abetting in suicide . He advocates other solutions on the way to the end of life. His experience shows him that most people don't want to die, they just don't want to suffer. “If you take this fear away from them, they usually don't ask for euthanasia,” says custom. Dying care is not euthanasia , instead palliative care must be strengthened and expanded. According to this, palliative care achieves “that the sick not only die better, but can also live longer and better if they are accompanied excellently by real, committed experts”. Sitte represented this position in the German Bundestag, among others. In his function as chairman of the board of the German Palliative Foundation , Sitte was invited as an expert to the Bundestag session in September 2015, which dealt with the drafts for the law on the criminal liability of commercial promotion of suicide. During the public hearing , he also called for more information about the possibilities of palliative medicine - similar to the campaigns for more willingness to donate organs - "for what is possible, what is allowed and what a patient can absolutely demand."

Because of his commitment, Sitte has been a member of the Pal-Life expert group of the Pontifical Academy for Life, which he himself helped to initiate, in order to spread the possibilities of hospice-palliative care worldwide since 2016.

Publications (selection)

  • Diving medicine. and exercise in palliative care patients. In: R. Raschka, L. Nitsche (Ed.): Practical Sports Medicine . Thieme, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-13-175611-4 .
  • Palliative care networks - Many roads lead to Rome. and drugs in palliative care. Open questions ! In: A. Wienke, K. Janke, T. Sitte, T. Graf-Baumann (eds.): Current legal issues in palliative care . Springer, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-662-48233-9 .
  • Life support. Euthanasia. Killing aid. Palliative care instead of assisted suicide and killing on demand. In: M. Brand (Hrsg.): Euthanasia or dying accompaniment. The debate. Herder, Freiburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-451-30623-5 .
  • Provision and support for the end of life . Springer, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-662-44346-0 .
  • Palliative care by relatives. Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66150-1 .
  • with Ingmar Hornke and Eckhard Eichner (eds.): Outpatient palliative care - A manual for practice. 2nd Edition. German Palliative Publishing House, 2014.
  • Forum Children's Hospice. German Palliative Publishing House, 2014.
  • The care tips - Palliative Care. 16th edition. Deutscher Palliativ Verlag, 2016.
  • with M. Thöns: Repetitorium Palliativmedizin. Springer Medizin Verlag, 2013. New edition 2016
  • with A. May: Legal issues at the end of life. German Palliative Publishing House, 2013.
  • with J. Huebner (Ed.): Complementary and alternative medicine in palliative care. 1st edition. German Palliative Publishing House, 2013.
  • Palliative care. In: The health system in Germany. Deutscher Ärzte Verlag, 2012.
  • 13 Aachen theses on outpatient palliative care. and the right to palliative pain relief. and emergence and establishment of the German Palliative Foundation. In: Praxishandbuch Palliative Care and Pain Management. 20th updated edition. Forum Verlag, 2011.
  • Doping and narcotics. In: Doping in Sport. Schattauer Verlag, 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.palliativstiftung.de
  2. ↑ Curriculum vitae Thomas Sitte ( - ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.palliativstiftung.de
  3. ↑ sadness news of the Fulda newspaper dated January 3, 2015 S. 42nd
  4. ↑ PalliativNetz ( Memento of February 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Pro PalliativNetz GmbH & Co. KG. Company data
  6. ↑ ppn4u.de ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ppn4u.de
  7. ↑ Thomas Sitte takes up a position in Hamburg. In: Fulda newspaper. December 25, 2013.
  8. ↑ State award for social civic engagement for Thomas Sitte. In: Osthessen-Zeitung. December 7, 2013.
  9. ↑ Thomas Sitte nominated as Doctor of the Year. In: Doctors newspaper. November 27, 2011.
  10. ↑ Andrea Nahles encourages Fuldas SPD. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Fulda newspaper. March 3, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.palliativstiftung.de
  11. ↑ The pain and palliative medicine specialist Thomas Sitte from Fulda receives the German Pain Prize 2011. German Society for Pain Therapy, March 25, 2011.
  12. ↑ Discussion about assisted suicide How Germans implement their death wish ( Memento from August 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) How Germans implement their death wish. In: stern.de
  13. ↑ Thomas Sitte: "Should doctors help with dying?" In: Das Milieu. February 15, 2018, accessed February 23, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Verbatim transcript of the public hearing on September 23, 2015, BT-Drucksache 18/5373, p. 33
personal data
SURNAME Custom, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German palliative medicine specialist
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Upper temp