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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

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Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. But all of us need to be able to listen deeply. Eric: LaVera, I got a question for you. Alex: Yeah.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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People would present with horrible opportunistic infections, not just pneumocystis pneumonia, but CNS infections with toxoplasmosis and wasting syndrome, of course. Bernie: And so Alex, it was horrible. It was a time when many people knew good friends who had died of HIV AIDS. And that was a time before there were antivirals.

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