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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

Physicians often not present except for an occasional monthly visit. Many residents dying with untreated symptoms, often after multiple high hospitalizations, life prolonging treatments, and very little specialty palliative care. Alex: What hope is there?