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Pediatric Hospice Care

Shining Light Hospice

Social workers offer emotional support to both the child and family, helping them navigate through the challenging emotions accompanying the situation. Instead, it’s about shifting the focus from curative treatments to comfort and quality of life. Choosing pediatric hospice care is an intensely personal decision.

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Storytelling in Medicine: A Podcast with Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani

GeriPal

Our listeners will be familiar with Anne Kelly, who’s a social worker at the San Francisco VA, on the palliative care service, who wrote a JAMA piece of my mind title The Last Visit. There’s this beauty that’s there, whether we’re doing geriatrics, infectious disease, palliative care.