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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. Alex: Thank you.

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

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And I felt like I could have done a better job clinically in responding to their anger instead of becoming my usual defensiveness. As Keri put it in the podcast, we must go beyond “a hammer and a nail” philosophy to approaching anger by developing a toolkit for anger that is vast and varied. Is that you Dani? Dani: It is me. I can tell.

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