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Palliative Researcher Oliver: Family Caregivers Are Also Patients

Hospice News

If you can’t do that, the only alternative that we have in our system is to pick up the phone and call somebody, to go to the emergency room or go to long-term care. They’re saying that you can’t have inpatient care because the patient is dying or doesn’t need the care of a physician or the care of a nurse.

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