Episode 53: She Was Asked to Be the One They'd Hate
Most people have never heard of a hospitalist until they meet one. Dr. Monique Nugent practices hospital medicine, the specialty that meets you in the five days when you’re sick, scared, and moving fast through a parade of specialists. In this episode of Kicking Cancer’s Ass, Monique and host Joelle Kaufman talk about the conversations that happen at the edge of serious illness and end of life, the ones the oncologist often doesn’t have and the hospitalist does.
They cover what a healthcare proxy really means, how to ask whether a decision is truly life-or-death before you panic, why “medical…
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