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Clinical Challenges in Surgical Palliative Care: Goals-of-Care Conversations

Join University of Washington’s surgical palliative care team for another engaging role play episode, where we tackle the challenging goals-of-care conversation. Using the VitalTalk REMAP framework, we explore effective communication strategies, highlight common pitfalls, and simulate two real-world scenarios: an on-call surgeon discussing goals of care with a complex patient facing an emergent surgical issue, and a team member facilitating a family meeting about goals of care in the surgical ICU.

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Dr. Katie O’Connell (@katmo15) is an associate professor of surgery at the University of…

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