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Normalcy, Introspection, & the Experience of Serious Illness: Bill Gardner, Juliet Jacobsen, and Brad Stuart

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Alex: She’s also associate professor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Harvard Medical School. She was a prior guest with Rachelle Bernacki on our most listened to podcast of 2022, Should We Shift from Advanced Care Planning to Serious Illness Conversations? Alex: She is working in Sweden and researching in Sweden, in Lund.

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

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Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. These older patients are costing a ton in healthcare costs.

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Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

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For this weekly treatment, the cancer team that had been consulted in the hospital told him this is nonsense. The major rock climbing magazine has an obituary section. And they would inject it back into him to treat his cancer for the low cost of $400 a treatment. And of course they were thrown out of the room immediately.