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

GeriPal

They get some training in their master’s program on research and they get some training certainly on writing papers, but then you get into clinical practice and it’s like a language. And then my mom was diagnosed with lung cancer and she was treated there. And sometimes social workers feel intimidated by it, too.

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

GeriPal

A lot of people, and we have some data to say that you might have distress, but sex is not one of the reasons for your distress when you’re first diagnosed. And so we have basic treatments for these issues that we train oncology clinicians to bring up in clinic practice. I mean, I don’t actually think it’s.

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