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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

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We also invited Beth Klint to speak about the doula’s role within a traditional hospice organization. There’s an organization that I took my training from, which began, I want to say, in 2012. Despite this, in my 20-year career as a palliative care physician, I have yet to see a death doula in the wild. Why Beth?

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High Peaks Hospice celebrates 35 years by looking back at their beginning

High Peaks Hospice

Ann Merkel grew up in New Haven, Connecticut where the first hospice in the United States started in 1974. That year Medicare determined that dying was no longer a diagnosis that warranted a hospital admission. So Ann and David decided to do what they could to start hospice services locally. David Merkel, lived in Saranac Lake.

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