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

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But luckily, Anne Kelly, our social worker, was in the room with me and said the magic thing that just was the right thing to say. And yet, when the reality of breathing difficulties, BIPAP, the talks of tracheostomy and ventilators set in, what had seemed so clear on that piece of paper, no longer seemed so clear.

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

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Their oxygenation, while important, whether or not we can take them off the ventilator, probably has nothing to do with the big picture, oh, and they’re dying of metastatic pancreatic cancer. Yes, you read some book or you try to steal a phrase from somebody else, and then you say that for the first time, it does feel awkward.

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

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I don’t need a checkbox form, I don’t need to know about CPR or mechanical ventilation. I think Bob draws your attention to Adam Grant’s books and his writing. Bob: I want to separate palliative care, which is a medical healthcare, nursing doctors, pharmacists, social workers from specialty palliative care.