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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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Today, we talk with Bernie Lo, prominent bioethicist and practicing primary care internist, and Laurie Dornbrand, geriatrician at the IOA On Lok PACE, about the legacy of Nancy Curzan. Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024. Why are you interested in this as a subject?

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

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But so if someone got admitted, palliative care could see them the next day. I think that study was really important, especially I think the message that I give people is you can do something as simple as calling a consultation and improve quality of life months later. Why is that important in the emergency room?

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. Actually, it’s not really an article.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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And to keep it short work for an article. ” And I too was just drawn to … from a clinical perspective, from a research perspective, just this revolving door through the emergency room. And how oftentimes the perception that this is supposed to be good quality care. Ruth: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Eric: Yeah.