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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

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I can either tell you, “Here’s what I want you to do and know,” or I can just give you a book and say, “Go read it.” Second thing to say is that I think referrals are really important. I have hired coaches based on referrals. I can’t make you learn something. You have to figure it out.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

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Additionally, here are some of the resources we talked about during the podcast: Eduardo Brueras editorial that accompanies the JAMA paper titled Improving Palliative Care Access for Patients With Cancer Our podcast on Stepped Palliative Care with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar The book What’s in the Syringe?

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

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” Whether it’s referrals that need to be made, or whether they’re specific actions that the person at home needs to take, like a home safety change. Mazie, I know it changes locale to locale, because your referral sources are going to be different. Mazie: Yes. ” Now we can address the issues.

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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. And that’s about half of our referrals.

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

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So take a listen and if you are interested in learning more, check out these wonderful links: Harvey’s latest book is called, Dignity in Care: The Human Side of Medicine Intensive Caring: Reminding Patients They Matter Michael J. And who’s a latest book is Dignity and Care: The Human Side of Medicine. Harvey: I feel welcome.