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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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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. And the problem, it goes down in many states to close family members, any friend who knows the patient.

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

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The last time this happened to me I immediately went on the defensive despite years of training in serious illness communication skills. Keri: It’s all normal, and it’s all data that can better inform our practice. And she couldn’t control her husband’s illness the way it was heading towards his death.

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