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

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Yael 10:34 More like a living will kind of a thing. Is the patient in your descriptor? Do they have a health care decision maker? Do they have a health care proxy? Alex 10:41 No, they don’t. Yael 10:52 Yeah. And I think that’s where there’s so much state by state variability.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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

GeriPal

So what we’re talking about here are living wills, right? So I think that really questioning what we do is a good thing that routes to improved patient care. I also think it’s really important that we be very clear that advance care planning, as traditionally defined, it goes well beyond palliative care.