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

GeriPal

But what I remember from that is at the end of your week long rotation, Michael, everybody gets a chance if they wanted to sit down with Cicely Saunders, social work nurse, doctor extraordinaire, you sit down with her. Brought to mind the neglect and warehouse style nursing home home shabbiness of les hospices.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

But our social work colleagues, our other team members really bring the lens and understanding for how we might be more holistic in thinking about a patient at the end of their life who’s struggling or suffering, who, who may have had cumulative trauma over the lifespan and how we can really be sensitive to and supportive of that.