Ira Byock
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629 appearances
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first heard Jun 2019
last heard Jul 2025
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And then what the h what hospice physicians need from hospice programs to do their job well to succeed.
And finally, when hospice physicians
should be concerned that they may not be able to provide good clinical care, ethically sound care because of the limitations that the that their work environment or their employment agreement uh impose on them.
And you're gonna sign
No, I I I'm in radical agreement with Joe.
I I again I I it's not about tax status.
It's about whether you provide consistently reliably good care.
And and um and I think
Below that, I would point to the presence or absence of physicians in hospice care.
These are the sickest patients in the healthcare system.
Yeah.
And I'm not trying to be chauvinistic about physicians, but we are an interdisciplinary team.
But there is a role for physicians in hospice care.
We created this field.
I'm old enough and it was in it early enough to one of the reasons we created hospice care in America was to remove the
barriers between dying patients and seeing a physician.
And now ironically, uh cruelly, in many hospice programs across the country, the hospice is the barrier to dying patients seeing physicians.
I think that's what I'm against, bad care.
I I want the Fourth Prophet to succeed.
I think it's a legitimate way of of uh organizing your provider organization.
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