Our patient was never going to wake up, and no decision should ever be made without consulting the spouse. But I hadn’t known she existed.
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Well: Who Can Speak for the Patient?
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Well: Overturning the Myth of Valley Girl Speak
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, took a close look at today’s uptalk, popularized during the 1980s as Valley Girl Speak.
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Afraid to Speak Up to Medical Power
Aspiring doctors quickly learn whose opinions, experiences and voices count, and it is rarely their own. But such an overly developed sense of hierarchy comes at an unacceptable price: good patient care.
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