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Evidence-Based Messaging for Serious Illness Care: A Podcast with Tony Back and Marian Grant

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Earlier this year palliative care was the correct response to the following clue on the game show Jeopardy: From a Latin word for “to cloak”, it’s the type of care given to seriously ill patients to provide comfort without curing. What’s wrong with the “pictures of hands clasping each other” as our palliative care meme?