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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. It happened to my mother. Louise, what happened to your mom?

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

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It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality. And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks. Eric 05:07 What actually happened with Covid-19 well.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. Just to let you know, Eric, we have to give the credit to our federal government. So we came out with a report in March of 2023, followed it on the heels of a report that we had done in November, 2022. And guess what?