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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

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There was a Stanford article talking about you as a pioneer in this field. Several of your former PDIA, Project on Death in America, scholars banded together and published a very controversial article in JAMA as I’m sure you’re aware. My question is, what article are you most proud of? Susan: Thank you. Susan: Yeah.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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This topic came up with Bernie published an article in New England Journal called Deciding for Patients Who Have Lost Decision-Making Capacity Finding Common Ground in Medical Ethics. You write about this, you’ve written this New England Journal article, you’ve written past articles.

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POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern

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Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy! It would have a CPR section and then it would have a healthcare proxy section. Respectful disagreement is in short supply these days.

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

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Start by reading this article by Sean Morrison, Diane Meier, and Bob Arnold in JAMA , and this response from Rebecca Sudore, Susan Hickman, and Anne Walling. It’s one of the reasons in the recent articles that I’ve written palliative care is not mentioned because it’s really not about palliative care.