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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

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In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? I don’t know if this person was a social worker or not. Barbara: Yay.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

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But when I retired from government service, I left Kalakkad in 2002. Eric: And at that time, so around 2002, so you had palliative care kind of localized in particular parts of India, what were the big barriers to delivering palliative care outside of those areas or even inside those areas? The post Palliative Care in India: M.R.

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How to discuss stopping screening: Mara Schonberg

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So my mother’s a social worker and she did domestic violence counseling forever. So when I got to a residency and at that point I was in residency 1999 to 2002 and we were being taught to screen everyone no matter what. How did you get interested in this? Mara: Yeah, definitely.