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GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care

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Attendee 12: I’m hopeful for more access to people to have palliative care early, and I’m hopeful that we’re able to provide patients and families what they need, which is a lot more caregiving, which I feel like is a big thing that we’re missing in our healthcare. We need good nurse practitioners.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

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” And I said to her, well, they had a geriatric nurse practitioner. Graduated in 2013, did a two-year clinician educator track. And I met with the clinical pharmacist who worked in that clinic and she told me, “You know what? We don’t have a geriatrician. The medical school has no geriatricians.”