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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

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Instead, what if your surgeon told you that the operation she was discussing could help with only 4 things: live longer, feel better, prevent disability, or obtain a diagnosis? What I need to navigate with that patient and their family, is it valuable to you? And when they talk to patients and families, it’s a pretty easy sell.

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

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Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. That’s a lot of appointments that we have to account for over time. So I don’t know how clinically meaningful that week difference was to families. I’m workshopping what I’m going to say at the “Congress du caretive” [speaking in French].