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

GeriPal

But if the services that they require aren’t able to be provided within, they have Health Net as their insurance, so we contract with specialists in the community. Because I feel like as a medical provider of taking care of somebody, the man in the hallway, I’ve known that person for 15 years.

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PRESS RELEASE: Coalition Acts to Protect Pregnant Patients’ Federal Right to Emergency Care, Including Abortion

Doctors for America

We are fighting to ensure that these protections extend to pregnant patients and that physicians can provide life-saving treatment to them without fear of prosecution.” The ACLU and our partners will not stop fighting against these continued attacks on our reproductive freedom.”

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

GeriPal

We sort of set physicians, or I would say we set medical providers up a little bit when we say, you really should us ask, but then we don’t give them the resources or the sense of training about what to do next. So cancer.net has information on this. These drugs are considered lifestyle medications. I have as well.

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