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Palliative Care ā€“ a Human Right ā€“ so apparent during COVID

Life & Death Matters

Much of the discussion about ethical issues has centered around the availability of ventilators, but little has been said about the need and the responsibility to provide palliative care, ways to integrate a palliative approach for those who are seriously ill, and how to best support those […].

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How Long Can You Be in Palliative Care?

Seasons Hospice

This type of request is often made by those wishing to avoid life-prolonging treatments such as ventilation or artificial nutrition when there is no hope for recovery. Is There A Length Of Time For Palliative Care? But how long can you stay in the program, and is it effective if you do? How Long Can You Be In Palliative Care?

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

GeriPal

Heck, Iā€™m not even sure to call it a podcast, as I think to get the most out of it you should watch it on YouTube. Why, because today we have Nathan Gray joining us. Nathan is a Palliative Care doctor and an assistant professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. His work has been published in places like the L.A. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Nathan.

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Miscommunication in Medicine: A podcast with Shunichi Nakagawa, Abby Rosenberg and Don Sullivan

GeriPal

Don, welcome to GeriPal. Don: Thanks for having me, Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Abby Rosenberg, who’s Chief of Pediatric Palliative Care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Director of Palliative Care at Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Eric: Yeah.

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

GeriPal

We invited Jim back with us along with Darrell Owens , DNP, MSN, who is the head of palliative care for the University of Washingtonā€™s Northwest campus. . What I loved about this March 2020 podcast was that Darrell pushed us to think differently: ā€œExpect that itā€™s not business as usual. Welcome back to GeriPal, Darrell. Darrell: Pretty amazing.