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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. Other states set lower bars, including oral assignment of surrogate decision-makers.

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

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Eric: I also wonder, thinking about our own medical school training, at least mine, is that there wasn’t a lot of normalizing emotions in our med school. Keri: It’s all normal, and it’s all data that can better inform our practice. What medications are the patient on? Eric: Yeah. Dani: Yeah. Keri: Yeah.

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