GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. Reading Ira’s article, it essentially was the VITAS Medical Director job description. We don’t want people dying in the hospital if their goal is to be at home. Lauren: Thanks for having me.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. link] Kensington Hospice & ‘Radical Love’ Equity-Oriented Hospice Palliative Care Naheed Dosani also serves as the Medical Director of Kensington Hospice, Torontos largest hospice. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And he’s also chaired the California Pacific Medical Center’s ethics committee since 1985. He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. She didn’t die in the hospital. Bill, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Then, it was like, well, it does as well as, and now, better than humans passing the medical boards, passing the law boards, doing great on the SAT, all that stuff. At the Mayo clinic, for example, they’ve got a very robust hospital at home program. Bob: Yeah, but you can imagine- Alex: I wish, but I worry I will not. Bob: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Today we talk with Margot Kushel about how we got here, including: That sense of powerlessness as a clinician when you “fix up” a patient in the hospital, only to discharge them to the street knowing things will fall apart. We would admit them to the hospital. Who doesn’t want to leave the hospital? Alex: Oh, yeah.

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