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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 hospicecare, modern hospicecare. You’re talking about a paradigm shift in healthcare. And I can’t remember the subtitle.
Additionally, we are still quite a young specialty, with the birth of HPM as an official specialty being announced in 2005 , and getting started in 2008. We are right behind cardiologists, oncologists, critical care and GI and this should be something (when shared) helps to cement our stature. If geriatrics is on there, so are we.
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