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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

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” And I said to her, well, they had a geriatric nurse practitioner. ” You can look back to an ACP paper in 2001 saying that the only way geriatrics survive is that we have to do this, and this doesn’t feel like a new conversation. We don’t have a geriatrician. The medical school has no geriatricians.”

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

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She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. We don’t want people dying in the hospital if their goal is to be at home. They went down comparative to the chain, the diminution of the area under the curb of hospital base.

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