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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

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Recently, discussion has emerged about how these issues intertwine in caring for patients with advancing dementia who have stated that they would not want to continue living in that condition: for those with an advanced directive to stop eating and drinking, how do we balance caring for their rational past self and their experiential current self?

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

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Both the motor movements and characteristics of the seizure, as well as the duration, are really hard to assess in a patient’s home. You should develop a specific plan for each patient with each patient. In a study from Kim published in Pediatrics in 2010, they looked at 526 children with complex febrile seizures.

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