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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

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Susan led the Project on Death in America’s Faculty Scholars program , used her dual training in internal medicine and psychiatry to shine a light on psychosocial aspects of palliative care, and founded the Department of Psychosocial Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. . That was one thing.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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He had this disseminated head and neck cancer and he had tried to get care before and due to his mental illness, he couldn’t follow up for cancer care. Naheed 17:53 Yeah, they want connection, they want relationship, they want, meaning. It might have to do with a sensitivity around mental health. Naheed 36:55 Yeah.

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

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We gave these tools to oncology and fusion room N that was complicated. So absolutely, it is complicated. So my research is kind of focused on explor ing the relationship between communication and the grief in the early bereavement stage. From just the abstracts we had so many questions. Yael 24:49 Yeah. And I totally agree.

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

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NIH study about long COVID published the day before in Annals of Internal Medicine. People who had had long standing relationships with their doctors wanted to change doctors. Part of our recovery is mental health and seeing each other’s faces. And one in five people had a serious COVID complication.