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Celebrating Hospice and Palliative Medicine as the Fifth Largest Medical Subspecialty

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Hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) is the fifth largest medical subspecialty! Additionally, we are still quite a young specialty, with the birth of HPM as an official specialty being announced in 2005 , and getting started in 2008. If geriatrics is on there, so are we. Spread the word! We have just entered our teenage years.

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

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end of life care and advance care planning) to more geriatrics focused (e.g. We additionally firmly establish that the song How to Save a Life by the Fray was a product of the aughts (2005, to be exact), not the 90’s ): Enjoy! It’s what happens in lots of different fields, including geriatrics. Transcript. Welcome back.

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Negotiation and Dispute Resolution: A Podcast with Lee Lindquist and Alaine Murawski

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Geriatrics. Dealing with conflict in caring for the seriously ill: “it was just out of the question” JAMA 2005. Alex: We are delighted to welcome back Lee Lindquist, who’s a geriatrician and chief of geriatrics at Northwestern. Conflicts Experienced by Caregivers of Older Adults With the Health-Care System.