Learn about the process of Advance Care Planning; what it involves and what decisions you will need to make when you create one. Learn how thinking these things though can open new channels of communication with your primary physician and the specialist in the hospital, so they may better help you and your family when you need it most. Dr. Brokaw is a graduate of Stanford University, and received her medical degree from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. She completed her emergency medicine residency at the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque, N.M..