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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. And it gives us the opportunity because we have more time in palliative care to focus on those things. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) â„¢.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

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Kate: Yeah, some of the thoughts I’ve had in thinking about this: we did not require communication, training and education of the clinicians. I treat patients with acute leukemias and related diseases, so I kind of know some of this from my own clinical practice. Emergency rooms. Eric: Okay. Eric: Okay.

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

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Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice. And I wrote a paper a couple years ago, entitled Forced to Choose: When Medicare Policy Disrupts End of Life Care. ” And I too was just drawn to … from a clinical perspective, from a research perspective, just this revolving door through the emergency room.