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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. Government is not the 51st state. He had overdosed due to a combination of alcohol and street drugs. And so the metrics kind of spoke for itself.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event. There was also a second event in that the pressures chosen weren’t the ideal ones. I mean, obviously nobody fed her the pill with the intention of choking her, but it wasn’t like suddenly she had another event out of the blue because she had a bad heart.