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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

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When you think about leadership and we think about health care, we still live in a healthcare system that has a hierarchy. And so there are different levels of power within our healthcare system. What does this diagnosis mean to you? Barbara: My first reaction is word, that’s really what happened. Barbara: You do.

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

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We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. Shout out to the UC Berkeley-USCF Joint Medical Program.

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Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

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So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. Eric 17:46 Well, how do you train them, the frontline people seeing these patients, healthcare providers, geriatricians, oncologists? And I said, sure. And she’s like, is it okay for me to kiss my husband now?

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