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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani
I was very proud to use the word "apotheosis" on today's podcast. See if you can pick out the moment. I say something like, "Palliative care for people experiencing homelessness is, in many ways, the apotheosis of great palliative care." And I believe that to be true. When you think about the early concepts that shaped the field, you can see how palliative care for persons experiencing homelessness fits like a hand in a glove: total pain envisioned by Cicely Saunders, which even its earliest sketches included social suffering like loneliness; or Balfour Mount, who coined the term "palliative…
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