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Confronting Stigma From Opioid Use Disorder in Cancer Care

Pallimed

He was offered aggressive chemotherapy and a referral to a clinic to address his opioid use disorder but did not follow up in the SUD clinic and later presented to an emergency department after a heroin overdose that reversed with naloxone. Fundamentally, the question is about who we think is deserving and able to receive cancer treatment.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

That’s where goals of care, and slowly … and concurrent care, thinking about hospice concurrent care with SNF care. And this person did die; he declined and was transferred to an inpatient hospice unit, and died the same day. Physicians often not present except for an occasional monthly visit. Mm-hmm (affirmative).