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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

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We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. But now we have older people dying of older people illnesses.

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

GeriPal

There was some at the time, which was 2006 so also, it’s been a while since the guidance has been updated and other guidance for other viral infections like hepatitis B and C. Do we need specialists who care for people living with HIV, whether they’re geriatrics specialists or palliative care specialists?

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Once again, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is in the line of fire

Common Sense Family Doctor

This post first appeared on March 6, 2018, during the first Trump administration's failed attempt to eliminate the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). health agency has supported and produced volumes of groundbreaking research on how to make health care safer, less wasteful, and more effective.