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Storytelling in Medicine: A Podcast with Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani

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I started blogging as a patient, just talking about my own story online like patients did back in the day. I was like maybe I’ll write a blog post about this later. I’m going to try to remember as much as I can, so when I wake up, can I write a … My thought was I’m going to write a cool blog post about this.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

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Back then we were a blog and Ken’s post, which is titled, Survival from Severe Sepsis: The infection is cured, but all is not well, is still one of our most viewed posts on Jerry Powell. Lauren: Although again, still thinking about what that means for an individual older adult is really important.

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AI for surrogate decision making?!? Dave Wendler, Jenny Blumenthal-Barby, Teva Brender

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And really they’re trying to understand what reasonable quality of life can this person expect to achieve and just agonizing over those decisions, over every individual decision. But more and more patients end up in emergency rooms and ICUs and they’re unrepresented. Do we do antibiotics or no antibiotics?