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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

GeriPal

And then, “I call hospice giving up.” Alex: Could you walk us through this one, stages of grief in era of immunotherapy? And it seemed like we had created a new stage of grief. And then there’s this explosion of nivolumab and then grief and acceptance. And at the top it says, “Pali-Jail.”

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

GeriPal

We were already an admitting service for inpatient hospice patients, but that’s only a couple a week. Not one elderly person died on a ventilator. And I would tell him not to underestimate the grief that he is going to experience. I was here consecutively 64 days, seeing people around the clock. Pretty tough.