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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

GeriPal

It used to also be a social worker and myself who would actually go to clinic and spend some time up there. Said social worker has left since then, so it’s now just me. Eric 06:20 Your team look like, is it just you from the palliative care perspective? Sarah 06:23 It’s just me.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

And now ICU care has flourished, and we can keep people alive in the sense that their heart is beating and we can sustain their ventilation and circulation. For example, I had another patient in the ICU who she was on a ventilator. ICU care was pretty rudimentary. It’s certainly not common in my practice.

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

GeriPal

I don’t need a checkbox form, I don’t need to know about CPR or mechanical ventilation. They said durable power of attorney for healthcare, like assigning a healthcare proxy. And when I think about advance care planning too, it all goes back to like meaning making, like who is this person? Who are they?