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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. So, we asked my older son, Kai, who’s 18 years old, he’s an adult, “What is Palliative care?” ” And, he said, “End of life care.”

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Why Patients with Lymphoma Are Less Likely to Receive Hospice

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Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. Family perspectives on end-of-life care at the last place of care. Association between the Medicare hospice benefit and health care utilization and costs for patients with poor prognosis cancer. 2008; 300 (14): 1665-1673. Kris A, Cherlin E, Prigerson H, et al. J Palliat MEd.

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High Peaks Hospice celebrates National Doctors Day with a Spotlight on our Medical Director

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He stopped in to request information and instead received an immediate call back from who would turn out to be the most formative person in his life, David Weissman, MD, the founding Director of the Geriatric and Palliative Medicine program at the medical college. Maintaining a focus on the future.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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You might be able to extend your life a little bit, but at what cost? So, that was maybe 20 years ago at this point and it really got me down the road thinking about advance care planning, end-of-life care, and similar consequences. That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008. Eric: Yeah.