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

GeriPal

Alex 01:42 And we’re delighted to welcome from my home state of Michigan, Joe Dixon, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc at Trinity Health. So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. This is Eric Widera.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

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Alex: And we have returning, Bob Arnold, who is a palliative care doctor at the University of Pittsburgh. Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. Susan: Thanks so much, Alex. Welcome back, Bob.