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

GeriPal

If the community hospital isn’t able to provide a service like tertiary care, oncology care, they would get a referral to UCSF or wherever, just like anybody 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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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. I mean, I don’t actually think it’s. I have as well.

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