Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast
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Palliative Care - What Were the Big Forces That Took the Field Forward?
Palliative care was founded in the early 1990s by a group of doctors who were shocked to find out that medicare hospice benefits weren't working. The prognteth america faculty scholars programme trained 87 leaders in palliative care across the united states, and they became the first generation of leaders of the field. Brian: I'm thinking about hearing all this as a more recent product of medical education here,. You know, i'e finished medical school ten years ago, and then internal medicine residency three years after that, and then pulmonary and critical care fellowship, and then finally finished it all. We now have on tapes its yoarpofetda, faith, you nont
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