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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. That makes it really special for them and for me.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. In what moral universe is a federal government deeply subsidizing my housing and not subsidizing that of my patients? There’s often both a floor and a ceiling, because let’s say they have a pension or they have government benefits.