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

GeriPal

When they built a new prison hospital in Stockton, the dialysis went there. 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 they need an acute hospitalization, they would be hospitalized in a hospital that we contract with.

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

GeriPal

Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers. Alex 00:03 This is Alex Smith. Eric 00:04 And Alex, who do we have with us today? Don, welcome to GeriPal. Don 01:11 Thank you so much. Yeah, but that’s how I started.

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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.