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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

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Well, there’s this descriptive phase where there’s a verbal and physical examination and the conditions discussed, and then, procedures are discussed. You may not see the big picture, like treating somebody with advanced dementia by hospitalizing them and starting antibiotics for aspiration pneumonia and potentially a peg tube.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

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Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. That’s a lot of appointments that we have to account for over time. We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing. Jennifer 00:44 Thanks.