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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Alex: Bernie.

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Black/African American Caregivers of Older Adults Living with Dementia: Fayron Epps and Karen Moss

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I think as researchers, we need to do our due diligence to follow that and healthcare providers, of course, ’cause we want to be sensitive. Even when we’re engaging with the healthcare system, there’s a lot of literature that talks about the discrimination that is often Black families face, and then it is true.

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

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Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. Susan: I’ll just say, I think that could happen outside of the healthcare setting pretty easily and frequently does. Welcome back, Rebecca. Rebecca: Agreed.

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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. ” Don: It was part of the palliative care fellowship, a study of linguistics and communication.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

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And that helped them focus on that instead of, say, the blood pressure, the vasopressors or the ventilator settings that day. And then they had to be receiving 48 hours of continuous mechanical ventilation at a minimum and be an adult. We have our social workers and our psychologists and we know how to manage these symptoms.

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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

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In the US, geriatrics “grew up” as an academic profession with a heavy research base. Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . You’re not hiring a bunch of social workers or nurses or docs to do it. Summary Transcript Summary.

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

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And so here’s a picture of four healthcare providers behind bars. ” The first healthcare provider said, “I said withdrawal of care. 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 at the top it says, “Pali-Jail.”