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Should we prioritize the unvaccincated for treatment? Govind Persad and Emily Largent

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And then being on a scarce resource committee during March, April 2020, man, it got really complicated and we spent hours and days trying to figure things out. Govind Persad and Emily Largent appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Emily: Yeah.

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Black/African American Caregivers of Older Adults Living with Dementia: Fayron Epps and Karen Moss

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I think that’s something we’ve seen even with the most recent issues that came out, not new issues, but came to the surface with the racial reckoning that we saw in 2020 related to murders and deaths and killings and that sort of stuff that helps to reshape how we refer to different groups of individuals in our community.

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POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern

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As you mentioned, it was published in JAGS in 2020, and we really started from the time of inception of POLST, so in the early 1990s, up until about February 2020 was the date that we cut off. I can on one hand count the patients I’ve cared for who didn’t want mechanical ventilation. Welcome, Abby. Good to know.

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

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This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. That was his literally his life during those spring months of 2020 and it scared the hell out of me. .