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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. ” [laughter] Alex: Poor ICU doctors, you’re getting a lot of grief today. ” I always blame, sorry, Don, the ICU doctors.

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

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Alex: Could you walk us through this one, stages of grief in era of immunotherapy? And it seemed like we had created a new stage of grief. And then there’s this explosion of nivolumab and then grief and acceptance. Alex: Let me share one here. Eric: You beat me into the punch this time. I had one ready. Nathan: Yeah.

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

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Not one elderly person died on a ventilator. And I would tell him not to underestimate the grief that he is going to experience. Darrell: But for me personally, I actually got involved with David Kessler’s organization in Southern California, and went through a grief educators program for him. Pretty tough.