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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. What does this diagnosis mean to you? And sometimes social workers feel intimidated by it, too. And you feed the medicine in.

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

GeriPal

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. And the point of that is that so many people, in my experience, and I’m sure it’s the same initial diagnosis of cancer, that’s the last thing that I want to talk about. And I said, sure. And I had that mortified look on my face of God.

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