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To Care Or Not

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Including them in providing more history and in discussions about testing and treatment plans for their parent benefits not only their parent, but also myself and my team. All the while, the three family members, who I learned later to be her son, her daughter, and grandson, focused all their attention onto a sporting event on the TV.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

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Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. We started a clinic here in 2008 at the VA, and what we found was that, you know, our median time from consult to death before we started clinic was like 18 days, somewhere around there, like somewhere around two weeks. Eric 10:44 No, all consults.

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