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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. He was a terrible diabetic. It happened to my mother. His hands were gone.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

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I had fun trying to make a danceable version with electronic drums for the audio-only podcast. And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks. There are other acute issues, blood pressure medication, diabetes.