Advancing the Knowledge of our Collective Brain- Feat. Anna Deforest

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A huge shout out to one of our awesome PGY2’s, Dr. Anna Deforest, for her recent publication in NEJM, Better Words for Better DeathsHer beautifully-written piece discusses the language that we, as health care providers, use to discuss end-of-life care and how the words we choose can influence our relationships with patients and their families and can also subconsciously affect the quality of the care we provide to our patients as they near end of life. She encourages us to be as thoughtful surrounding the way we discuss end of life care and decision making as we are in discussing life-sustaining measures. Her piece was recently featured in a writing symposium at Yale (see here for details), and not surprisingly she went on to have her manuscript picked up by NEJM. Outstanding work, Anna!