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

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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. 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. Somebody asked the question. I had one ready.

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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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