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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. What feelings do we have toward the patient and toward their families? Summary Transcript Summary Think about the last time a patient yelled at you in anger. How did you react? This is Eric Widera.

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

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That’s why we use the terms assessment and intervention and we think of assessment as a skill of a very advanced skill that chaplains have of doing an in-depth evaluation of a patient or family member, and then the interventions should certainly follow naturally from that. LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine.

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