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

GeriPal

In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. They didn’t have a mentor, a financial provider, all of those things. If the community hospital isn’t able to provide a service like tertiary care, oncology care, they would get a referral to UCSF or wherever, just like anybody in the community.

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Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

GeriPal

And so clearly it matters how you bring up the topic, who brings up the topic, and probably the timing when this comes up for patients and families, just like we think about conversations about illness and prognostic understanding, I wish there was a good prevalent state data on how big this is of a problem in serious illness at large.

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Feds Investigate Hospitals Over Religious Exemptions From Gender-Affirming Care

Physician's Weekly

An administration release announcing the probe says the Michigan case is the third investigation in “a larger effort to strengthen enforcement of laws protecting conscience and religious exercise” for medical providers, citing federal laws known as the Church Amendments.