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

GeriPal

We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. So if you think about 100 patients per year, that you need to have some benchmark after going into business to care for so many terminally ill patients. Welcome back to GeriPal, Lauren. I’m excited.

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What RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer

Physician's Weekly

In the medical odyssey that followed, she suffered double vision, chronic nausea, brain fog, and profound weakness. system for monitoring the rare ill effects of vaccines. In 2001, the CDC set up the Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment project, through which a network of eight U.S. centers study rare vaccine reactions.