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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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In case you miss the introductions at the start of the podcast, Bernie and Laurie are married, and offer wonderful reminiscence of their clinical practice over the last several decades. And the problem, it goes down in many states to close family members, any friend who knows the patient. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) â„¢.

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The Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner

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Not my normal clinical practice. And when I’m one on one, I carry a portable chair with me just to sit with a non-intimidating presence, to be more fully present right with the family and with the patient. I recently had an angry patient and I had the opposite enactment. I started bending over backwards. Dani: Totally.

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