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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? Eric 11:05 So is there a trigger or what’s your referral criteria for the outpatient clinic? When the lymphedema therapy, it’s a type of physical therapy where they do wraps and they go. Eric 43:12 Okay.

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

GeriPal

And it was really good for my mental and physicalPhysical health, obviously, but mental health really. And then three weeks later, you’re in the emergency room and somebody else talks with you for a little while. Get the hospice referral. So you need to do them in order.

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