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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. If they didn’t do it all by themselves, they talked to the family and it was a conversation, but also there wasn’t a whole lot that doctors can do then.

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

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So when we encounter anger clinically, when we’re in an encounter with a patient and their family, what are perhaps three steps, and we have the three step model for how we can look within ourselves and respond. What feelings do we have toward the patient and toward their families? And countertransference is everywhere.

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