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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

GeriPal

Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? I’ve seen patients post transplant when they start having complications. Eric 11:05 So is there a trigger or what’s your referral criteria for the outpatient clinic? They are complicated. Amy 12:23 I find this one.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? That this is iterative from diagnosis to end-of-life, right? And then three weeks later, you’re in the emergency room and somebody else talks with you for a little while. Get the hospice referral.

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Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’

Physician's Weekly

Walk-in clinics are overbooked, the emergency rooms at the hospitals all have overfull waiting rooms and doctors and nurses are doing 12-hour or longer shifts. Philip Maxwell, Victoria, British Columbia A Seattle reader delivered a diagnosis on X: So I guess this article and the Dr. Interviewed are far left progressive.