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Celebrating Hospice and Palliative Medicine as the Fifth Largest Medical Subspecialty

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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. by Christian Sinclair ( @ctsinclair ) We have entered a new age! Spread the word! We have just entered our teenage years.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

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. They’ve all been laid out for you. Alex: Great Eric: These are the questions submitted by our audience? Anne: Right. So, we’re not totally winging it here. Alex: Oh no.

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The Ask-Tell-Ask Approach in Four Steps

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Journal of the American Geriatric Society. 2008; 26: 5988-5993. Journal of the American Geriatric Society. 2008; 300 (14): 1665-73. Journal of the American Geriatric Society. The Optimism of Hospice Care Hospice care can give patients hope. 2003; 51 (10): 1398-1403. Daugherty C, Hubocky F. J Clin Oncol.

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Why Patients with Lymphoma Are Less Likely to Receive Hospice

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Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. J Palliat MEd. 2008; 300 (14): 1665-1673. Hospice Improves Quality of Life Hospice has been associated with improved quality of life at the end of life and reductions in the risk of psychiatric illness among bereaved caregivers. J Clin Oncol. 2010; (29): 4457-4464. Kris A, Cherlin E, Prigerson H, et al.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

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On today’s podcast we talk with three experts on buprenorphine on why, when, and how to use it in serious illness. And if you want to learn more about buprenorphine from these amazing palliative care clinicians and others, check out of some of these articles: Learn more about caring for those with substance use disorder: . Transcript.

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

High Peaks Hospice

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. Curt Gedney, and our Assistant Medical Director, Dr. Noelle Stevens!

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Addressing The Range of Patient Beliefs About COVID-19

Pallimed

In winter 2008 after President Obama was first elected, I saw a woman in clinic who said she was disappointed by the election result. Lyle Fettig is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Department of Medicine/Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics.

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