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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. My voice is nothing special. I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. I think that’s more palliative than me.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

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Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. So has a special resonance for, I think, a lot of people who are Tragically H ip fans.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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You know, she would have had 90 really good years, and she would have just gone into a coma with no blood pressure and died, you know, with, like, a day and a half of illness. 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. And I was.