State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. “So be careful, assuming that the other person might be vulnerable is a fair assumption, and doing our fair share by not participating and spreading it around would be, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program.
“Many of us in the community walk around with chronic illnesses, or with serious illnesses like cancers, that others wouldn’t even notice,” he said. “Screening tests are being postponed, mammograms, colonoscopies, skin checks, and that really worries us about what’s going to happen a year from now,” she explained.Īl Achkar asked people to keep cancer patients, and others in mind, when they question the validity of Gov. She’s also concerned about what the COVID-19 crisis could mean for cancer diagnoses in the months to come. The Seattle organization – formerly known as Gilda’s Club – helps cancer patients and their families navigate the treatment and trauma of what can often be a fatal diagnosis.Īccording to Gottlieb, Cancer Pathway clients are currently experiencing even more isolation than healthy people.
“But still, that threat is serious, and it is more serious among those that are ill.”Īnna Gottlieb, executive director of Cancer Pathways in Seattle said, “There’s so much fear, people don’t know what to be more afraid of their cancer or this virus.” Staying home is frustrating and boring,” Al Achkar said. He said he’s frustrated by – even resentful of – people who don’t take the threat to his health and the health of others seriously, and continue to go out in public. “Many times it is difficult to tell from the outside what the person is actually dealing with and suffering from,” he told KIRO 7 on Friday.īecause his job in family practice puts him at risk for contracting COVID-19, Al Achkar has been working from home for weeks. Al Achkar – a physician and professor at the University of Washington - looks healthy, thanks to medication he’s been taking since his November 2016 diagnosis.
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