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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

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I didn’t know where they existed within the hospital. Eric 07:04 You actually created things like a curriculum for hospital medicine fellows in radiation oncology. But radiation oncology was really more or less like a black box. There really was very little. We would have patients who would go. Alex 44:06 Thank you, Emily.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. 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.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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And often, people had to drive an hour to go to their clinic, and then since- Eric: Every day, driving an hour, driving back two hours a day, just in transportation to get your methadone once a day, every day. They had to have certain amount of urine drug tests in a year, and they had to wait in line. Katie: Yep.

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