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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

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He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. I have written about it in the book. So, we formed this organization called Pain and Palliative Care Society in the Northern Kerala city of Kalakkad based in the government medical college.

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When do we learn to treat our doctors properly?

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Damage The plaintiff must be able to prove that he/she suffered harm because of the treatment which can be physical, financial, or mental. During the second wave of COVID, a government doctor in Madhya Pradesh resigned after a few Congress leaders verbally abused him following the death of a COVID patient.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

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Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding.

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

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Sheryl: Largely the people who live there as opposed to government funds. And it’s interesting there because long-term care is covered by the government, but still assisted living has emerged as a private market to try and accommodate some of this demand for supportive services. Eric: And who pays for assisted living communities?

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

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Because our division of geriatrics has such expertise in secondary data analysis and how their retirement studies, can set me off on this task to go read the code books in HRS. Things like smoking status, level of physical activity, a variety of other lifestyle and biological risk factors that may be alternative explanations.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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But for me to really get comfortable in palliative practice, I had to go book like other rotations and spend some, some extra time with people who do addiction health, people who, you know, I spent time with the outreach nurses who are doing, you know, street outreach visits. How do you actually physically find them if that’s the case?

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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Her most recent book is Elderhood. He made it very clear that he called me by looking my number up in the phone book. Eric 42:11 But how much of it is like Winston Churchill, like, democracy is the worst form of government. Eric 00:13 And, Alex, who do we have with us today? Louise, welcome back to GeriPal. Bill 42:22 I did not.