Dr. William Clay Jackson MD
Hospice and Palliative Care Specialist | Hospice and Palliative Medicine
7945 WOLF RIVER BLVD GERMANTOWN TN, 38138About
Dr. William Jackson is a hospice and palliative care specialist practicing in Atoka, TN. Dr. Jackson provides care to people who are seriously ill. As a hospice and palliative care specialist, Dr. Jackson works to relieve the pain and suffering of people who have a severe medical condition and are in a critical state. Hospice and palliative care specialists try to improve the quality of life for a person who may not have much time left to live.
Education and Training
Univ of Tn, Memphis, Coll of Med, Memphis Tn 1998
Georgetown University in Washington DC 1998
Board Certification
Family MedicineAmerican Board of Family MedicineABFM- Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Our best path forward.
- Palliative sedation vs. terminal sedation: what's in a name?
- "Mercy"--narrative, role-play, and attitudes concerning antemortem care.
- Antemortem care in an afternoon: a successful four-hour curriculum for third-year medical students.
- Olanzapine for intractable nausea in palliative care patients.
- When All Else Is Done: The Challenge of Improving Antemortem Care.
- When Patients Are Normal People: Strategies for Managing Dual Relationships.
- Retrospective Study of Olanzapine in Depressive and Anxious States in Primary Care.
- Sustained remission with lamotrigine augmentation or monotherapy in female resistant depressives with mixed cyclothymic-dysthymic temperament.
- The importance of facilitating adherence in maintenance therapy for bipolar disorder.
- Paradise lost?
- Methadone: friend or foe?
- Beyond the resistance: how novel neurobiological understandings of depression may lead to advanced treatment strategies.
- Depression, pain, and comorbid medical conditions.
- Assessing and managing pain and major depression with medical comorbidities.
Treatments
- Liver Cancer
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Chronic Pain
- Heart Failure
- Lung Cancer
- Dementia
- Pain
- Vascular Disease
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