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E.g. Yael Shenkers negative study of primary palliative care for cancer , Randy Curtiss negative study of a Vital Talk-ish intervention , Lieve Van den Blocks negative study of primary PC in nursinghomes. This is not why I went into emergency medicine. They got training in Vital Talk and ELNEC. They got feedback. So did it matter?
Private equity is probably one of the top things that I’m worried about with the future of our field in Palliative care and that because private equity is buying up… And Geriatrics, buying up assisted livings, nursinghomes, hospices at an extraordinary rate. They’ve all been laid out for you. Anne: Right.
And especially it becomes even more interesting when you’re dealing with things like hospice patients or nursinghome patients, whereas they start to approach near the end of life, they may have to be more bedbound and just not have as many opportunities to really have a fracture. It’s like 2007 or something.
Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursinghome as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. Eric: And can I ask you, why did you choose geriatrics? Why did you go into it?
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