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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. In 1988, Cruzan’s parents requested that her feeding tube be removed, arguing that she would not want to continue in this state. In 1990 the Supreme Court ruled…for the state of Missouri.

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

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We’ve invited Jacqueline Kruser and Bob Arnold on this week’s podcast to talk about their recently published JAMA Viewpoint article titled “ Reconsidering the Language of Serious Illness. ” You recently published an article in the New Yorker titled, I can’t even read my own, what was the title again? Of course not.