Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold
One of my favorite Piece of My Mind essays in JAMA is by Rebecca Sudore, titled, \u201cCan We Agree to Disagree?\u201d\xa0
And today our guests agree to disagree.\xa0\xa0
And yet, and yet\u2026
They also agree across a whole range of issues, some of which surprised us.
This is the latest in our series of podcasts on concerns about, and potential of advance care planning.\xa0 If you\u2019re new to this discussion, don\u2019t start with this podcast!\xa0 Start by reading this article by Sean Morrison, Diane Meier, and Bob Arnold in JAMA, and this response from Rebecca Sudore, Susan Hickman, and Anne Walling. Then listen to these prior podcasts with Sean Morrison and Rebecca Sudore about this issue, and we recently discussed differences between Advance Care Planning and Serious Illness Communication with Juliet Jacobsen and Rachelle Bernacki.\xa0\xa0
On today\u2019s podcast we ask our guests about areas in which there might be agreement or disagreement, including:
- The Best New York style bagels are made in California.
- Assigning a surrogate decision maker is important for everyone, including those who don\u2019t have serious illness.
- Where does POLST fit in with this debate?
- All decisions are made in advance, the question that we are debating is how far in advance and what to call it
- Completion of advance directives and billing codes for advance care planning as quality metrics
Among other topics.\xa0 I\u2019m heartened that we could have this discussion as a field, as it shows that we\u2019ve grown to the point where we can agree to disagree respectfully with each other.\xa0\xa0
We can work it out!
Links to a few couple items mentioned on the podcast:
-@AlexSmithMD