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The Candor Code: What End-of-Life Care Taught One Nurse About Living Better
Angelina Rodriguez has been in rooms most people only read about. As a hospice nurse, HMO case manager, healthcare liaison, and now consultant, she has spent over two decades watching the healthcare system do what it does best — and what it fails to do completely.
This episode opens with something unexpected: a story about grief. After losing her nephew to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and watching him die in pain, Angelina didn't step away from medicine. She walked straight into hospice care, where she spent years being the last kind presence in people's lives. The work was heavy, she admits, but…
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