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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008. And I try to provide as much objective data as I can on mortality risk and complication risk, but I also try to paint a clear picture of what life may look like afterwards, what the best case scenario is, the worst case scenario, and the most likely case scenario.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

And the Ryan Haight Act I think was passed in 2008, which was in response to a young person who died of an opioid overdose. And they were prescribed those opioids from an online prescriber, that was not from a palliative care practice by the way, but some online prescriber of opioids. What was life for you as a provider pre-pandemic?