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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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We have world class primary care, cancer care, palliative care. The peach program and our mobile palliative care program for people experiencing structural vulnerabilities. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. That’s a question too, Alex.

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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. Louise, welcome back to GeriPal. Eric 46:49 Yeah.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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These were usually very physically demanding, low paid, often usually non-union work, that they worked their whole lives and were hanging on by their fingernails. In what moral universe is a federal government deeply subsidizing my housing and not subsidizing that of my patients? They didn’t go to the psych ER again.