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

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My voice is nothing special. A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. Alex 09:00 Not true.

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

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And a doc over in Spain named Monica Lalanda, who is an ER doc and also a cartoonist, reached out to me and said you don’t have to do this anonymously. I share this story of a patient I cared for who was in the later stages of ALS and had lost much of physical function, lost voice. So I got back into it anonymously. Nathan: Yeah.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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One of the worst ways is you have a community of people who’ve paid into Social Security their whole life, paid into to support Medicare their whole life, and don’t live long enough to see the fruits of that. .” Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. Margot: Yes. Yeah, for sure.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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If you are interested in learning more and meeting a community of folks interested in hospital-at-home, check out the hospital-at-home user group at hahusersgroup.org or some of these publications: Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. How is it financed and what comes next?

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