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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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And now ICU care has flourished, and we can keep people alive in the sense that their heart is beating and we can sustain their ventilation and circulation. For example, I had another patient in the ICU who she was on a ventilator. They didn’t come up in geriatrics very much. And we see that too in geriatrics.

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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. I don’t need a checkbox form, I don’t need to know about CPR or mechanical ventilation. So what we’re talking about here are living wills, right?