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An ER doc reflects on life, death and uncertainty in the early days of COVID-19

NPR Health - Shots

Farzon Nahvi spent the first few months of the pandemic as an emergency room physician in Manhattan. His new book is Code Gray. He talks about trying to improvise treatments during that time.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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Her most recent book is Elderhood. So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. He made it very clear that he called me by looking my number up in the phone book. Louise, welcome back to GeriPal.