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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser
Communicating about a serious illness is hard. Last week's podcast we talked about the challenge around miscommunication in serious illness. This week we dive into the challenges with communication when it comes to life sustaining treatments and CPR. Take for example the simple question:
"If her breathing gets any worse, she will need to be intubated."
This seems like an innocuous statement of fact, but does she really "need" to be intubated if, for example, her primary goals are to be comfortable and die at home? Of course not.
We've invited Jacqueline Kruser and Bob Arnold on this week's…
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