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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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Many links: VA Presents: My Life, My Story: George: A Voice To Be Heard on Apple Podcasts. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 22 (5):392-400 / PMID: 32740304. Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. So I allow family members to be present if they want them to. Wonderful work. Bennett, C.R.,

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

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Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. Heather: Thanks Alex.

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PROP’s Disproportionate Influence on U.S. Opioid Policy: The Harms of Intended Consequences

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PROP Appears on the Opioid Policy Scene In 2011, a group of internists, including Michael Van Korff, Andrew Kolodny and Roger Chou, co-authored an article that modern palliative care physicians would recognize as a “warning shot (6)” in the world of opioid policy (7).

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Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?

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Although this reduced Washington state’s Medicaid costs, it contributed “to the deaths of at least 2,173 people between 2003 and late 2011 (23, 25).” Presented on February 10, 2022, for the Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care (Virtual Conference). Seattle Times, December 21, 2011. 2011 Sep 6;155(5):325-8.

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