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Former Mercy Health CEO: U.S. Needs to Embrace ‘Death Literacy’

Hospice News

This is the subject of Connelly’s recent book, The Journey’s End: An Investigation of Death & Dying in America. It’s going into an intensive care unit and getting feeding tubes and ventilators and all this stuff that isn’t going to change anything. But they don’t always understand what that means.

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

GeriPal

You’ve written in a lot of places, including your own books. I think one of the residents you asked how would they broach a subject, and he said wording like, “Unfortunately, he still needs a ventilator.” Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Jacky: Thank you. It’s a pleasure. Bob, welcome back to GeriPal.

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Miscommunication in Medicine: A podcast with Shunichi Nakagawa, Abby Rosenberg and Don Sullivan

GeriPal

Because, if anybody hasn’t seen it, you’ve got a great Twitter feed that gives tons of pearls on palliative care and a lot on communication. Don, welcome to GeriPal. Welcome back, Abby. Abby: Thank you. Abby: Thank you. So glad to be here. Shunichi, welcome back to GeriPal. Shunichi: Thank you for having me. Eric: Yeah.

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

GeriPal

However if you want to take a deeper dive, check out his website “ The Ink Vessel ” or his amazing twitter feed which has a lot of his work in it. Heck, I’m not even sure to call it a podcast, as I think to get the most out of it you should watch it on YouTube. Why, because today we have Nathan Gray joining us. Transcript. This is Alex Smith.

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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. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. That will be the last one in his life.