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Mar 2023
52m 54s

The Muffin Question

NEJM Group
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In the first episode of “Not Otherwise Specified,” host Lisa Rosenbaum talks with Shekinah Elmore about her hard-won insights into patients’ experiences of both illness and health care, the role of narrative in life and medicine, and how to achieve true shared decision making. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2 ... Show More
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