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Friday Reflection 31: Senses, Memories, and Medicine

Sensible Medicine

When smells and sounds, as well as sights, come together, the impact of an entire location can be powerful. She had gram negative bacteremia with mild sepsis originating from a urinary tract infection. It was in room 23 that she first raised the possibility of hospice. His family had left a radio with his favorite band playing.

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Friday Reflection 31: Senses, Memories, and Medicine

Sensible Medicine

When smells and sounds, as well as sights, come together, the impact of an entire location can be powerful. She had gram negative bacteremia with mild sepsis originating from a urinary tract infection. It was in room 23 that she first raised the possibility of hospice. His family had left a radio with his favorite band playing.

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Why don't oncologists refer to palliative care?

PulmCCM

Intensivists are used to managing respiratory failure, shock, sepsis, pulmonary embolism, acute kidney injury, and hemorrhages—sometimes simultaneously. It’s impossible to do all these things well at once. But in people with advanced metastatic cancer, such major acute organ failure is rarely reversible.

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