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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

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But two, a very close relationship with potentially the palliative care physician or the individual who’s Sort of managing their pain, because the simulation itself can be 20 to 30 minutes of lying in that specific treatment position. Sometimes individuals have lung tumors that make it difficult for them to breathe.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

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Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. Today we talk with experts Janet Ho, Sach Kale, and Julie Childers about opioid use disorder and serious illness. Eric 00:51 So we’re gonna be talking about caring for people with serious illness and substance abuse.

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Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

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We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. If its potentially unsafe, but has robust evidence, well thats most of the treatments we offer seriously ill patients! Ivermectin to treat cancer. Stem cell treatments. Chelation therapy.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

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For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. And so the control room is a contiguous room, but the individual rooms where the patients, the actors and the doctors are separated by a wall. Amber: Thank you guys.

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Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

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Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. Alex 02:44 Still suffering from some illness from there, which is why I was sick and not in the office with Eric today. And is it at all individualized to the patient? Yeah, yeah.