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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. Laurie: Yeah, she was an On Lok patient, and I went in to see her in the hospital.

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

GeriPal

And while I was in the hospital, I never actually got over, like you were talking about, Eric, my defensiveness, the sting to my ego and my character and my worth, enough to get to the place of thinking about how I could be a good doctor for him. And also the whole potential psychiatric diagnoses. It has nothing to do with you.

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