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Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly

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Alex: And a voice that will be very familiar to our listeners, a dynamic and enthusiastic social worker in palliative care at the San Francisco VA, Anne Kelly. And one quibble with that of course is that we think the definition of capacity is that it’s task and context specific. Welcome back, Lynn. Lynn: Thank you.

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

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Brian: The standard definition that we take a lot, from the work of David Kissane, has been poor coping, the sense of helplessness or hopelessness, and a lack of purpose and meaning. To Brian’s point, that we are also integrating chaplains, social workers, it’s not necessarily two psychotherapists. What is this?

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

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So a lot of the skills that are used in advance care planning are the same kind of skills you would use in a context where you were communicating information or prognosis or doing an informed consent discussion. I don’t completely buy that there’s separate constructs altogether. Hopefully that answers your question.

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Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg

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And so Ruth highlighted one of the features of this pragmatic trial that was different than the outpatient trial was that we didn’t need to consent patients and families for participation in this study. And so that’s how we were able to proceed with the study under this waiver of consent. ” Would that make it?

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