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Storytelling in Medicine: A Podcast with Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani

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This week we’ve invited three guests to share their stories about storytelling that’s written for healthcare providers. Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. What motivated you to reach out to the healthcare audience in this way? The first guest is Liz Salmi.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

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And it culminated in him giving a bad light to the patient in the hospital room because that was the only semblance of normalcy for this patient. That said, I think we, and I mean collectively, not just in critical care, I think we as a healthcare system, I think we’re really good at keeping people alive. Alex: Bye everybody.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. This shouldn’t have happened. We can make this better.