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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

If you’re in the outpatient setting, Tim, and you’re seeing somebody in clinic and you’re worried that they’re heading towards a path where, you know, their chronic diseases are getting worse, we may have to make some decisions. What do I do? And ideally at other times too. Or do you dive deeper?

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

GeriPal

And when she was here, she co founded the Golden Compass Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital for older adults living with HIV. So I think I remember the early years, once this became more of a chronic disease, I would go to these ID meetings and people would be wringing their hands saying, well, I don’t know how to treat diabetes.

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‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

Physician's Weekly

Gaunt and feverish, he went to the hospital and learned he had AIDS. His mother slept at his hospital bedside for two weeks: “She said, ‘God got you.’” . “I thought my family was going to disown me,” he said. A year later, his weight plummeted because he couldn’t hold down food or water.