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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose. This topic came up with Bernie published an article in New England Journal called Deciding for Patients Who Have Lost Decision-Making Capacity Finding Common Ground in Medical Ethics. ICU care was pretty rudimentary.

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Why is working with adolescents and young adults so hard? Abby Rosenberg, Nick Purol, Daniel Eison, & Andrea Thach

GeriPal

It is really difficult for the patients and the families. Part of that, as you’re alluding to, Eric, is this relationship with authority and with rules and word association, teenage rebellion. You’re recognizing that, wow, this could happen to me, and I wonder sometimes about the challenges. It’s very fraught.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

That’s why we use the terms assessment and intervention and we think of assessment as a skill of a very advanced skill that chaplains have of doing an in-depth evaluation of a patient or family member, and then the interventions should certainly follow naturally from that. LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine.

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