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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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In 1988, Cruzan’s parents requested that her feeding tube be removed, arguing that she would not want to continue in this state. On the one hand, this was unfortunate, as it meant Nancy Cruzan could not be disconnected from the feeding tube immediately. In 1990 the Supreme Court ruled…for the state of Missouri. Alex: Bernie.

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

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This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. Eric: Yeah.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

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And I’m worried about all of us as healthcare workers, but particularly… And when I say particularly those in the hospital, because they are just tired. If they had a healthcare agent, then this would be better, right? Or the cases where someone actually said, “I never want a feeding tube.” Eric: Yeah.

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