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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

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” And he says, “It’s in the emergency room.” ” So yeah, I don’t know what you guys think about bringing it into surgical education, and partially, it’s also about culture change in some ways too, in surgery. I need to fix it.” Is that what you were alluding to, Justin?

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event. There was also a second event in that the pressures chosen weren’t the ideal ones. I mean, obviously nobody fed her the pill with the intention of choking her, but it wasn’t like suddenly she had another event out of the blue because she had a bad heart.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

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The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. But, for a majority, it’s a first time event.