Today's Swallier Pride guest is Dan Weinstein.

Dan is a board certified specialist in swallowing and is an incredibly intelligent

and very well spoken SLP from the Philadelphia area.

Actually, at the time of this recording,

he was the Speech Pathology Supervisor

at the Department of Rehabilitative Services

at UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco, but since then he's moved back to the East Coast

because he wants to look closer to me, and he'll be starting his new position shortly as the

Chief of Speech and Audiology Services at the Philadelphia VA Medical

Center.

Dan has served as a clinical supervisor for several years and in his experience he has

developed a way of explaining very difficult topics for SLPs in a very simple and eloquent manner.

If I could go back and do my externships or CF again, I would pick Dan in a heartbeat.

He cares so much about educating SLPs and

helping them to learn the medical reasoning and research behind everything we do.

In this episode we discuss palliative care in both the acute care and skilled nursing settings.

We dispel some myths about feeding tubes, thickened liquids, and how best to treat our end of life

patients with dysphagia. Dan also touches on esophageal

dysphagia and some things we should and shouldn't do with treating that.

Welcome to the Swallow Your Pride Podcast.

I'm your host, Teresa Richard.

I'm a board certified specialist

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