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Why is working with adolescents and young adults so hard? Abby Rosenberg, Nick Purol, Daniel Eison, & Andrea Thach

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We remember bucking the rules, figuring out who you are, hair on fire, feeling invulnerable, trying to figure out who you are – and now those adolescents are stuck in the hospital, with doctors and parents telling them what to do, having their autonomy crushed by the medical institution, realizing they’re not invulnerable. Abby: Yeah.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

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On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. This is Eric Widera.

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The Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner

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Managing anger is hard, it’s really hard. And yet we don’t ever talk about how to manage it. In a hospital in the morning, six people wake him up, they got a blood draw, they got everything else. There’s so many elements of a patient that’s hospitalized or going through our medical system.

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