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What end of life concept is care of patients and families at the end of life and during the last few weeks or months of life to minimize suffering by providing appropriate symptom management and emotional support?

List two diseases that may benefit from home mechanical ventilation.

A patient can refuse to complete an advanced directive.

What are the three components of the goals of care framework?

When traveling in the US with a portable ventilator what are two things that need to be done prior to traveling?

After the 2008 financial crisis and the failure/need for bailing out stand-alone investment banks, they chose to be converted to a bank holding company to gain access to FDIC insured deposits, and FED emergency lending facilities 

Conflicts of interest are not a potenital issue in investment banking 

Securities brokers earn a commission taking on no price risk vs dealers who carry an inventory of securities taking on on price risk/earning a spread between between their bid purchase price and ask sale price

Their is both a legal an illegal shadown banking system

Banks have an advantage in originating loans, but not in funding loans due to FDIC deposit insurance premiums, loan loss reserve provisions, and meeting minimum capital standards