Elizabeth Eckstrom
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60 appearances
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first heard Feb 2019
last heard Feb 2019
Elizabeth Eckstrom’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Most of the time, patients don't want feeding tubes anyway, which is great.
That one doesn't change, but maybe they do want to be limited interventions.
We fill it out that way, but then they can state fairly clearly.
As my disease progresses, I want to be kept comfortable.
If things aren't going well, please don't keep taking me back to the hospital.
Don't put me in the hospital for pneumonia.
And then we can write those things down.
That can be part of the advanced directives.
And then later with the family member, the surrogate decision maker, we can do a new POLST when it is time to change them to comfort measures only.
So it does require a fair bit of finesse, but we want the POLST to be accurate for what your health is now and what your values are now.
But we also want to make sure that we've laid the groundwork for what you might want down the road.
And that's more part of the advanced directive that we can then convert into a new POLST with the surrogate decision maker.
But I don't know that you'd want to take CPR right off the form.
I mean, it could mean there are a lot of people who are going back to get these, you know, kind of completely worthless resuscitations and make everybody miserable.
So hopefully that's not going to happen.
But if I had to choose.
And after a month of having the new forms here in Oregon, there's been no pushback.
Everybody loves it.
So if you tell the California folks that, hopefully it'll be a no-brainer.
So this one only took a year, which means you got better at it.
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