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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. So we’re going to be today talking about serious illness palliative care in the homelessness population.

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

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He uses comics and other artwork to share his experiences in palliative care and educate others about topics like empathy and communication skills. Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . This could be something that meshes with your life and medicine. His work has been published in places like the L.A.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

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I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? This is not why I went into emergency medicine. I went into emergency medicine to act. And so we use that. We use Vital Talk.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

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Well, todays guests love music at least as much if not more than me, and they each make a strong case for music as medicine. Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. I’m originally an ER physician. And I found myself, at times, kind of at a. Tyler 36:40 Incredible.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

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Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. But at the end of the day, I actually view medicine more as an applied science.

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