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Family Meetings on Behalf of Patients with Serious Illness

This video published in the New England Journal of Medicine introduces clinicians to core family meeting skills such as the importance of the pre-meeting, a structured approach to the meeting, and pointers on how to respond to emotion. On our related podcast episode, we went around the “zoom room” and discussed our favorite teaching points on how to conduct family meetings.

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