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Defining Emergency

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Emergency, as per the all-knowing Webster, is defined as an unforeseen combination of circumstances or the resulting state that calls for immediate action. Furthermore, an emergency is also defined as an urgent need for assistance or relief. Can you appreciate the obviousness of the long waiting times in the emergency department?

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

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Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. Well, because they’re hard on people with dementia and they can be very hard on families, and they’re a form of crisis. Is that right, Soo? Soo 00:32 Thanks.

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Bingo Resilience

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Of dropping everything at that very moment to be at their parent's side during an Emergency Room visit. It had presented soon after she had eaten a BLT sandwich for lunch. Sam was her only immediate family left. It was my way of acknowledging and validating their efforts in helping their ill parent in a time of need.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

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. And that changed in 1969 I think the first advanced directive was created by Luis Kutner. Bernie: Well, there was a time when doctors made these decisions.

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

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I love this series of articles because each presents a component of a practical, patient-centered approach to patient-surgeon communication and decision making, and language surgeons (and surgical trainees) can start using in their next patient visit. What I need to navigate with that patient and their family, is it valuable to you?

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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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I think for families and for other providers who are not trained in that, it’s very hard to predict. Sarah 24:24 See, I usually always present it as these are things we should think of. You know, they’re in the ICU, sick as a dog, and somehow they get through, or maybe they don’t. I don’t know what others think.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

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Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. They may have few family members, live alone. You just knew it? Thomas: Yeah, yeah.

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