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

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Healthcare staff were afraid of patients with HIV because there wasn’t clarity on how it was transmitted. The person didn’t believe in the medications. But now we have older people dying of older people illnesses. And at that point, there were signs up, literally said infectious disease, do not enter, danger.

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

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Summary Transcript Summary As Eric notes at the end of today’s podcast, we talk about many difficult issues with our patients. But one issue we’re not as good at discussing with our patients is sexual health. Clearly this issue is important to patients. So we got a lot to cover on sexuality, sexual health, and serious illness.

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