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[stormdog]

The episode I'm listening to right now used audio from where I work, oddly enough. It was an actor playing a patient to whom a student doctor is giving a terminal cancer diagnosis as part of learning how to deliver bad news. Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross comes up too, which makes me think of a friend who is part of hosting death cafes to encourage people to talk about these things in ways that we often don't. Funny personal connections.

So the American Medical Association actually published ways for doctors to lie to patients who had cancer, to avoid telling them they were going to die. How fucked-up is that?

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The episode I'm listening to right now used audio from where I work, oddly enough. It was an actor playing a patient to whom a student doctor is giving a terminal cancer diagnosis as part of learning how to deliver bad news. Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross comes up too, which makes me think of my friend Sherry's work in hosting death cafes. Funny personal connections.

So the American Medical Association actually published ways for doctors to lie to patients who had cancer, to avoid telling them they were going to die. How fucked-up is that?

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What?! I just listend to a bit more after helping a couple of patrons. If a patient discovered the truth and reacted poorly to a fatal diagnosis? They recommended lobotomies. No shit. Aw, this person is having a hard time dealing with zir mortality? Who want to deal with that? Let's just lobotomize 'em. Jesus Christ.

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[cahwyguy]

That was an interesting episode of 99% Invisible. I really liked the one on Curb Cuts.

[cahwyguy]

Never mind. Just saw that you liked it was well. Look up the 20 kHZ podcast (twenty-thousand kilohertz) on sound design.

[stormdog]

That sounds (hehe) interesting. Thanks!