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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? So if one of my patients gets admitted, I also see them on the inpatient side of our hospital. I’ve seen patients post transplant when they start having complications. They are complicated. So I go between.

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

GeriPal

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back, a frequent guest to our podcast, Rachelle Bernacki, who’s a palliative care physician and geriatrician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital.

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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. They gave me another referral and reported the practice to Medicare. We need doctors and will welcome American doctors here with wide-open arms.