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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

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Like, do you think maybe, you know, let’s educate. We could wear masks against Covid, but we couldn’t vaccinate against racism. And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks. It was like talking about smoking cessation.

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

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Lucky, Jim and many others like him were willing to come on to our podcast those first several months of the pandemic and share their experiences and lessons learned caring for COVID positive patients and their family members. . Or, if they were in the emergency room and decided to be admitted for comfort measures only, I would admit them.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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We would find these people in the hospital, and we said, “What would you have thought if someone had come up to you in the emergency room yesterday, and said, ‘Hey, instead of going upstairs, you could go home.’ And then, the patient can bypass the emergency room entirely. We did our initial pilot study.

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