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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

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Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. And so when you have that, that’s so good for the family. That’s so good for us.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

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Prognosis communication and the subtle ways we may communicate it without intention. Community-based palliative care networks . But when I retired from government service, I left Kalakkad in 2002. And I believe it needs the community. And the community came in. Social pain and loneliness.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

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In 2002, 1% of adults were taking gabapentinoids (gabapentin and or pregabalin). Eric: And we have Tasce Bongiovanni, who is an acute care trauma surgeon at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital. These are families who are in distress. Eric: Although pregabalin, right, more misuse of pregabalin out in the community.