Judith Vick, MD Candidate, and Rachelle E. Bernacki, MD, on A New Clinical Tool: The “Surprise Question”
2015 Palliative Care in Oncology SymposiumJudith Vick, MD Candidate, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Rachelle E. Bernacki, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discuss a tool that could help clinicians identify seriously ill patients who would benefit from conversations about their goals and values (Abstract 8).
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