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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients.

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

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And while I was in the hospital, I never actually got over, like you were talking about, Eric, my defensiveness, the sting to my ego and my character and my worth, enough to get to the place of thinking about how I could be a good doctor for him. I was trying so hard to make you guys believe that I was competent to do a good job here.

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