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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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Dani and Kery present three steps for interacting with an angry patient: Look within: What is this anger bringing up in me? 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.

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