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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. Yet that person could very well have a financial incentive to, you know, make a decision a certain way to keep the, the bed filled or what have you. This is Eric Widera. Alex 01:24 This is Alex Smith.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

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Because how that is approached can have lasting effects on relationships, unfortunately. I can get you guys that information. And then they can transfer that information to the specialist. Emmy: I think we’ve heard a lot about things like, “How do you embed it in preventive wellness visits?”

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