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Maria Ansari, MD, FACC, named to Modern Healthcare’s list of 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives

Permanente Medicine

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. It’s by choice, just like in the community. When they built a new prison hospital in Stockton, the dialysis went there.

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Normalcy, Introspection, & the Experience of Serious Illness: Bill Gardner, Juliet Jacobsen, and Brad Stuart

GeriPal

Alex: She’s also associate professor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Harvard Medical School. It’s a community of people you’re joining to whom you’re going to be in bonds of love and that this is the key to coping with suffering, I guess if I had to put it in five words or whatever, how many words that was.

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Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers

GeriPal

But the other was she read an article about our hospice in the May of 2018 New York Times magazine. Jerry: Well, for me it’s about, I may have not chose this to be my community, but I chose the actions that led this to be my community. So she found that incredibly moving, so that’s one of the songs on the album.

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

So I didn’t mention this at the beginning, but after my time as President of Canadian Psychiatric Association, I actually also went on to be the physician chair of my former hospital’s MAID team. Because in medicine as somebody who works in the hospital, there’s always other treatment options.

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