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Why is working with adolescents and young adults so hard? Abby Rosenberg, Nick Purol, Daniel Eison, & Andrea Thach

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We remember bucking the rules, figuring out who you are, hair on fire, feeling invulnerable, trying to figure out who you are – and now those adolescents are stuck in the hospital, with doctors and parents telling them what to do, having their autonomy crushed by the medical institution, realizing they’re not invulnerable. Eric: Yeah.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients.

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

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On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. They followed them during the course of their hospital stay. These studies are important. These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system. Did it have any impact?

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The Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner

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The last time this happened to me I immediately went on the defensive despite years of training in serious illness communication skills. In a hospital in the morning, six people wake him up, they got a blood draw, they got everything else. Summary Transcript Summary Think about the last time a patient yelled at you in anger.

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