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MAY 25, 2023

Sarah: But as you bring your inner circle into your care, you know, how does that that that feels like an important group to be assessing in terms of psychological outcomes and kind of what their experience with the process is like as they’re navigating illness and serious illness. Alex: LJ, are you going to add to that?

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MARCH 13, 2025

Alex Smith Links Link to the McGill National Grand Rounds Series on Palliative Care , Michael Kearney as initial presenter, and registration for future events. What I think so special about palliative care is that there’s some really radical and important ideas that sort of undergird our work and that provided a foundation for our work.

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MAY 22, 2025

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. My voice is nothing special. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience. There’s a small book called Music and Creativity in Healthcare Settings written by Hilary Moss.

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JULY 11, 2024

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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DECEMBER 5, 2024

So has a special resonance for, I think, a lot of people who are Tragically H ip fans. It was like kind of a co op with this common space that different groups could rent for events and meetings and things like that. There’s obviously a lot of flaws in the healthcare system. It was my first concert without my parents.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The illness narratives suffering, healing, and the human condition. Usually events open up some insight into the person themselves as they’re describing the suffering. Naomi: Well, I have a special place of not being a doctor within this great group of people. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event. That makes it really special for them and for me.

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AUGUST 8, 2024

Eric 00:05 And Alex, we have a special episode today — B etween T wo U rns. And I think, oh, there was something she did besides getting cancer and dying, which requires such a focus, you know, cancer and terminal illness of any kind. And I got to sing Tom Waits’ Time, one of my favorites. This is Eric Widera. I won’t.

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MARCH 16, 2023

We have two authors, books, op-eds, prolific authors, and today’s podcast is a two-part special. So this week we’re going to be talking about writing for the lay public, and next week we’ll be publishing a podcast on writing for healthcare providers. But I was focused on his very ill wife. Eric: Yeah.

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JULY 13, 2023

Today we discuss a new paper in JAMA that tests a stripped down version of the clinician only facing intervention in a pragmatic randomized trial for older adults with serious illness and those 80+. Eric and I also reflect on the podcast Randy generously did with us on his experience living with and studying serious illness.

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JULY 25, 2024

The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old. Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. Why do this?

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APRIL 21, 2022

Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness. I think that we forget that the clinical encounter is very often just two people in a room experiencing each other, and that that’s what is the beginning of that sacred space of healthcare and healing.” To let it go. . ” Alex: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

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