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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

GeriPal

Can you come and be in our clinic once a week? It used to also be a social worker and myself who would actually go to clinic and spend some time up there. Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? I started our liver embedded liver clinic about seven and a half years ago.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

Should we focus on something else, both from a clinical and a research perspective? And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? And then three weeks later, you’re in the emergency room and somebody else talks with you for a little while.

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Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’

Physician's Weekly

Walk-in clinics are overbooked, the emergency rooms at the hospitals all have overfull waiting rooms and doctors and nurses are doing 12-hour or longer shifts. Our national record for health care during the covid pandemic emergency was second to none. Our women’s clinics are not plagued by political ideology.