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Why is working with adolescents and young adults so hard? Abby Rosenberg, Nick Purol, Daniel Eison, & Andrea Thach

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It is really difficult for the patients and the families. They do choose to rely more on their family and parents in ways that might feel like a step backwards and is yet, still developmentally appropriate and autonomous. The family dynamics are different though. Abby: Yeah. Andrea: I agree entirely, Eric.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

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We are also joined by LaVera Crawly, a physician turned chaplain, now VP of Spiritual Care at Common Spirit Health (and author of another of my favorite and most cited papers on palliative care in the African American Community ). LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine. You started off as a physician, right? LaVera: Yes.

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