Interview

LISTEN NOW: Steve Pantilat, MD, SFHM, explains hospitalists' role in palliative care


 

Steven Z. Pantilat, MD, SFHM, medical director of the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine palliative care service, explains palliative care is not end-of-life care, and the role hospitalists should play in palliative cases.

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