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Miscommunication in Medicine: A podcast with Shunichi Nakagawa, Abby Rosenberg and Don Sullivan

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To me, that feels hard because I guess my inclination is that I want communication to be fixable, and there’s so much medical information and there’s a lot of reasons for families to feel like they’re struggling to understand. What was it, 5%? Eric: 2% of the time. Alex: 2% of the time. Shunichi: No.

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Avoiding the Uncanny Valley in Serious Illness Communication: Josh Briscoe

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So one end of the spectrum is somebody who’s just a total novice, and it’s clearly very awkward and they’re not used to talking to people in a clinical encounter, like a medical student or something like that. Versus, Patrice Lars, one of our nurse practitioners, she would use touch all the time, and that’s her.

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

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Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. Alex, is it okay if I ask?

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