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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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Keri: It’s all normal, and it’s all data that can better inform our practice. 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. Eric: Bored, thinking about- Dani: Feel helpless. Eric: Yeah. And that’s all normal, right? Dani: Yeah. And he was livid.

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