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Do You Believe in Cancer and Coronavirus Miracles? Here's research.

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

As a hospice volunteer, I noticed that many patients held strong beliefs about miracles that were important to them when making decisions about their health care. He spent 30 days in the ICU and was on a ventilator three times while at MedStar Franklin Square where he almost died. What about you? Do you believe in miracles?

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty. Ken Covinsky wrote about it for GeriPal.