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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

And the problem, it goes down in many states to close family members, any friend who knows the patient. So you don’t have to have the piece of paper that says, I appoint so-and-so only if you want to go outside the legal of the default characterizations, but you have to have a legal document.

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The Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner

GeriPal

And I was aware in the room that at the appointment when he was mad at the system, I could have sat with that forever. And when I’m one on one, I carry a portable chair with me just to sit with a non-intimidating presence, to be more fully present right with the family and with the patient. And he was livid. Dani: Totally.

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