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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

It was in the mid-nineties, and about half of the patients that we cared for in the inpatient service were homeless. We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. They didn’t go to the psych ER again. What was I doing?