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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

Jennifer Temel study did not have a social worker as part of the clinical team. Eric: … social work-led research, social work-led clinical program. So … But it’s hard to let go of that clinical time. A lot of the studies coming out of there don’t have a social worker as part of the team.

IT 101
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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

There are clinics. But if the services that they require aren’t able to be provided within, they have Health Net as their insurance, so we contract with specialists in the community. Because I feel like as a medical provider of taking care of somebody, the man in the hallway, I’ve known that person for 15 years.

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Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

GeriPal

Sharon Bober, clinical psychologist at DFCI, notes that clinicians can get caught in an anxiety cycle, in which they are afraid to ask, don’t ask, then have increased anxiety about not asking. And it actually came up during a clinical encounter that I had. So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis.

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