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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

GeriPal

But I think where it ends up causing problems is just if they’re going to have many sessions, transport to and from, and just the overall cost that can be essentially not feasible for the hospice.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

And often, people had to drive an hour to go to their clinic, and then since- Eric: Every day, driving an hour, driving back two hours a day, just in transportation to get your methadone once a day, every day. They had to have certain amount of urine drug tests in a year, and they had to wait in line. Katie: Yep.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

In case you miss the introductions at the start of the podcast, Bernie and Laurie are married, and offer wonderful reminiscence of their clinical practice over the last several decades. And I think DNR and transport to hospital are those kinds of things. Should we abandon the term, “comfort measures?”

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