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Managing team
conflict around how to treat a patient |
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How to tell a
patient it may be time to stop treatment |
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When your own
issues of mortality come into play |
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Caring for a
colleague |
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How to discuss
a Do Not Resuscitate order with a patient and family |
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When cultural
and religious beliefs interfere with your ability to communicate |
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When a patient
cannot afford care |
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Stories of hope/miracles |
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The patient who
refuses traditional treatment and opts for alternative medicine |
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Pain management:
comfort v. lucidity |
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Breakdown in
communication between patients and caregivers |
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Care of the elderly:
assumptions and challenges |
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Race and the
patient-caregiver relationship |
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Sexuality and
illness: conversation comfort zone |
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Are we connecting
with our patients or are we too busy? |
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Does the internet
help or hinder communication? |
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Gifts from patients:
what is acceptable? |
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Timely hospice
referrals |
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Delivering bad
news |
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Children dealing
with the death of a parent |
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Pain management
in the addicted patient |
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Death during
the holidays |
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Communicating
genetic risk: pros, cons and counsel |
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Losing faith
in God: dealing with spiritual crises with patients |
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How it feels
when a patient "fires" you |
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Medical mistakes |
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Dealing with
unexpected loss |
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Humor and healing |
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The impaired
professional |
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"I should have
gone into law": the personal price of caring for seriously
ill patients |
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When health care
providers lose their jobs |
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Allowing a good
death |
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Curtains have
ears: privacy issues |
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When you have
to do things you think are wrong |
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Maintaining boundaries
when the patient is your friend |
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Providing high-cost,
cutting-edge, non-reimbursable care |
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Putting compassion
to the test: what to do when you do not want to walk into
the room |
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The relevance
of rituals |
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Losing patients
when they go to hospice care |
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Effect of financial
status on health care |
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Turning the other cheek: Compassionate
care in the face of anger
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