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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

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James Tulsky did a study in the late 80s looking at how residents at UCSF talked about code status, where the paradigmatic way was, if your heart stops, do you want us to resuscitate it? Alex: A feeding tube. 20 years later, Wendy Anderson did exactly the same study and found that residents at UCSF used exactly the same language.