Charles Y. Whang, MD

  • Palliative Medicine
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Charles Y. Whang

Locations

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

About me

My hope is to be an advocate and guide for anyone-patients or their loved ones-going through serious illness. I am here to help with distressing symptoms of the mind, body and soul and to help in decision making to ensure patients get the care they want, and to protect them from things they do not want. By knowing a patient’s values, hopes and fears, we can navigate the complex medical system together to maximize quality of life and prevent suffering. This is my goal for all my patients as it would be for my own family and friends.

Specialties

  • Palliative Medicine

Areas of focus

  • Medical decision making support
  • Medical system navigation and education
  • Elucidation of patient and family hopes, values and fears
  • Symptom management in the area of severe illness (i.e. shortness of breath, cancer related pain, nausea etc.)
  • Inpatient hospital care support
  • Hospice and end of life care (when needed)

Titles and faculty positions

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth

View my Geisel School of Medicine profile

Year joined

  • 2017

Department websites

Education

Medical school

  • MD, Ross University School of Medicine, Dominica, West Indies, 2013

Fellowship

  • Palliative Care, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, 2017

Board certification

  • Internal Medicine
  • Hospice and Palliative Medicine