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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. So, we asked my older son, Kai, who’s 18 years old, he’s an adult, “What is Palliative care?” ” And, he said, “End of life care.”

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

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She retrained as a social worker, and it was while she was a social worker that she began to formulate her ideas for better kind of end of life care, which was to become hospice care, modern hospice care. She started her career as a nurse and probably her heightened that worked against her. She put her back out.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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You might be able to extend your life a little bit, but at what cost? So, that was maybe 20 years ago at this point and it really got me down the road thinking about advance care planning, end-of-life care, and similar consequences. That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008. Eric: Yeah.

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High Peaks Hospice celebrates National Doctors Day with a Spotlight on our Medical Director

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He stopped in to request information and instead received an immediate call back from who would turn out to be the most formative person in his life, David Weissman, MD, the founding Director of the Geriatric and Palliative Medicine program at the medical college. Maintaining a focus on the future.