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Alex 00:15 We are delighted to welcome back Louise Aronson, who’s a geriatrician and author in the UCSF division of Geriatrics. And sure enough, yeah, we hospice and let her die at home in a couple days, very quietly. Eric 00:13 And, Alex, who do we have with us today? Her most recent book is Elderhood.
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Every member of the team, even for me, for whatever reason, that switched me from focusing on trying to be in pulmonary critical care to become actually a geriatrician, choose the geriatric fellowship. You cannot be in hospice. The intermediary care. Long-termcare. For the longterm.
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