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Defining Emergency

StorytellERdoc

I originally wrote this piece in December, 2010. When a critical illness or injury occurs, then, we should all be thankful that we live within a society where emergent, life-saving medical care is available. To office appointments sent to the ER because "we are overbooked today." Broken bones. A heart attack. A cardiac arrest.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. Chris 07:41 Yeah, it’s a really interesting thing, because the 2010 article was solving the problem of, hey, send us patients, we promise we won’t kill them. What we know was evidence based before?