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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

GeriPal

Today we have the honor of interviewing Susan Block, MD, one of the pioneering leaders in the fields of palliative care, particularly psychosocial aspects of palliative care. Eric: So Susan, you have touched so many people in the field of hospice palliative medicine. Susan: Beautiful. That was one thing. Eric: Yeah.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

So I guess the bigger question I’m going to turn to you, Tammie, on this is that we actually had Yale Shanker and Bob Arnold on to talk about primary palliative care intervention and oncology in infusion clinics. No difference in their primary outcome. The primary care intervention did not work well.