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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

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Today we have the honor of interviewing Susan Block, MD, one of the pioneering leaders in the fields of palliative care, particularly psychosocial aspects of palliative care. We delighted to be joined by Brian Block, pulmonary/critical care faculty at UCSF and frequent guest host on GeriPal…and also nephew to Susan.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

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It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here. So we did have a clinical decision support pop up that said, hey, this patient has serious illness, why don’t you go have a goals of care discussion? No difference in their primary outcome. No, no, no.