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Veterans and Palliative Care with Dr. VJ Periyakoil
ByiSAGE Team December 16, 2015April 30, 2020

This weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Radio Dr. Adam Goldstaein & Dr. Cristy Page are talking with Dr. VJ Periyakoil, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University about Veterans and Palliative Care. Listen to the show here. YOUR HEALTH® is a weekly one hour radio talk show on patient health produced by the University of…

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The Proxy Predicament: Making Medical Decisions for Others is Hard
ByiSAGE Team November 17, 2015April 30, 2020

Most of us will lose our ability to make medical decisions for ourselves as we get closer to the last phase of life. At this point, our proxy decision makers will have to make decisions for is. It is impossible for us to truly know what another person may want for themselves in terms of…

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High School students trained to become cultural ambassadors for aging and end of life issues
ByiSAGE Team October 30, 2015April 30, 2020

To improve end-of-life care in the United States, especially among minorities, much work will need to be done to build trusting relationships, ones in which patients feel comfortable in engaging in end-of-life conversations. Based on recommendations from multi-ethnic patients and families, Stanford launched the Letter Project, a grass-roots campaign to empower multi-ethnic patients to initiate…

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