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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? Sunita: Oh, I was going to, just to clarify what I had said before, it’s definitely not that we based things solely on biology, for sure.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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Alex 00:15 We are delighted to welcome back Louise Aronson, who’s a geriatrician and author in the UCSF division of Geriatrics. And now I’m almost 90, so definitely I don’t need to do suffering. Louise 13:48 Definitely some thoughts, and I think slightly different for different people. I’m not brave.

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