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Disparities in End-of-Life Cancer Care

Shannon Westin speaks with Holly Prigerson and Alfred Neugut about their thought-provoking editorial, "You Get (Offered) What You (Can) Pay For: Explaining Disparities in End-of-Life Cancer Care."

New York Times article about PGD and COVID

As Covid Deaths Rise, Lingering Grief Gets a New Name

Prolonged grief disorder was recently added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, just as experts are predicting a coming wave of severe bereavement.

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nytimes.com_2021_12_08_well_mind_prolonged-2Dgrief-2Ddisorder-2Dcovid.html-3Fsmid-3Dem-2Dshare&d=DwIFAg&c=lb62iw4YL4RFalcE2hQUQealT9-RXrryqt9KZX2qu2s&r=... Read More

'Time don't heal it': The 'grief pandemic' from COVID-19 will torment Americans for years, experts say

The pandemic — and the political battles and economic devastation that have accompanied it — have inflicted unique forms of torment on mourners, making it harder to move ahead with their lives than with a typical loss, said sociologist Holly Prigerson, co-director of the Cornell Center for Research on End-of-Life Care.

See the full article of how Dr. Prigerson comments on the COVID-19 and the grief pandemic at USA Today.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/05/30/grief... Read More

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