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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega
In November of 2022, Ava Kofman published a piece in the New Yorker titled "How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle." Some viewed this piece as an affront to the amazing work hospice does for those approaching the end of their lives by cherry picking stories of a few bad actors to paint hospice is a bad light. For others, this piece, while painful to read, gave voice to what they have been feeling over the last decade - hospice has in some ways lost its way in a quest of promoting profit over care.
On today's podcast, live from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Annual…
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