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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 then my mom was diagnosed with lung cancer and she was treated there. Eric: And how long ago was that?

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How to discuss stopping screening: Mara Schonberg

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So when I got to a residency and at that point I was in residency 1999 to 2002 and we were being taught to screen everyone no matter what. If you know that there’s a group that you don’t treat even after they’re diagnosed, it causes anxiety, but you’re not causing them harms from treatment. It can be stressful.

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