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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

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Summary Transcript CME Summary As far as weve come in the 50 years since Balfour Mount and Sue Britton opened the first palliative care at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Quebec, have we lost something along the way? I was trained in the hospital where it started, and we were trained to be bedside nurses. Sue 01:26 Thank you.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

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I think some individuals thought there was cherry-picking of stories that made it seem like hospice is this bad thing, that it’s taking advantage of vulnerable individuals and it didn’t talk enough about the good things that hospice does. We don’t want people dying in the hospital if their goal is to be at home.

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Psilocybin in Serious Illness: James Downar, Ali John Zarrabi and Margaret Ross

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Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. So in our trial, because of security reasons, we are required by Health Canada to store the substance in a special secure area in my office. We dedicated team working with cancer and palliative medicine in our hospital. James, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Im b leary eyed.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

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We got some really special guests with us. And so that lends it properties of being a pretty strong analgesic and it lends its special properties for safety, from a safety profile. I got one more lightning question, Janet, you’re at UCSF you’re caring for a patient in the hospital. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

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Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. First time on the GeriPal podcast, Liz Lilley, who’s a surgeon and faculty in surgery at the Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Alex 00:12 This is Alex Smith. Kara 10:12 Yep.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. He created fee for service, special fee for depression. So what that means is I take care of you just in my clinic, just in my hospital. And I was terrified.

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

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Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to GeriPal podcast, Brooke Calton, who is a palliative care physician and faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and is also newly the Medical Director of palliative care at Devoted Health. Joe: Great to be here. Welcome back to GeriPal, Brooke. Brooke: Thank you.