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A Family's Cry.

StorytellERdoc

"The death of a child is the single most traumatic event in medicine. My beautiful work family was despondent and deflated. Life-saving IV medications were administered in attempts to jump-start injured bodies that wanted to shut down. So many medical providers gave everything they could to change the fates of these patients.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Eric: And you’re also the medical director of the hospice unit here. Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. Michele: Yep.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

The SAMHSA defines trauma as an event, series events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual. So there’s an event or a series of events.