Becky Liddicoat Yamarik on Palliative Care and End-of-Life Medical Issues

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🗓️ 10 November 2014

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Becky Liddicoat Yamarik, Hospice Palliative Care Physician, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the joys and challenges of providing care for terminally ill patients. The two discuss the services palliative care provides, how patients make choices about quality of life and when to stop receiving treatment, conflicts of interest between patients and families, and patients' preparedness to make these decisions.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:11.0	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find links
0:16.2	and other information related to today's conversation.
0:19.0	You'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done
0:23.1	going back to 2006.
0:25.4	Before email address ismailadycontalk.org, we'd love to hear from you.
0:32.4	Before introducing today's guest, I have said news to report, DG Myers, who I interviewed
0:37.6	last summer, has passed away.
0:40.3	His interview was part of the reason I scheduled today's guest, Becky Liddichot-Yumerik,
0:45.0	a palliative care physician who had some interesting observations in the aftermath of the Myers
0:49.8	interview that she shared with me via email.
0:53.4	It's passed away after the interview with Becky was recorded, so you won't hear it
0:57.0	mentioned in today's episode.
0:59.3	I will link to DG Myers' blog that includes an announcement of his death with charities
1:03.5	you can choose to donate to in his memory.
1:06.5	Now for today's episode.
1:10.4	Today is September 22, 2014, and before introducing today's guest, I want to mention we've been
1:16.4	creating some additional resources for your education and what we hope is your enjoyment
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1:25.8	ways for you to check your knowledge and find connections between episodes.
1:29.6	I've been adding afterthoughts on episodes now and then at econtalk, and sometimes at
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