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

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And sort of a few years ago, we would sometimes see referrals a bit later than we would have liked. We are Seeing referrals at an earlier time point, especially at a point that I feel that I can really help a patient. Is it normally the oncologist who’s making the referrals to you or do they come from people outside of oncology?

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

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Should it just be referral to their PMD, who’s all, “Why are these people telling me to do all this stuff all the time?” If the buprenorphine is being prescribed for opioid use disorder, they’re not going to be following… Should they be following that longitudinally? ” Thoughts on that? Katie: Yep.

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