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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

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Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. And I turned to my dad and I said, I think mom needs palliative care.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. Sometime after the age of 50, we could identify an event where the folks who were first homeless before 50, there wasn’t a clear crisis that precipitated it. They didn’t go to the psych ER again. Margot: Yes. But they were poor, really poor.