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

GeriPal

We’ll discuss three recent clinical trials involving patients with serious illness, joined by our guests James Downar , Ali John Zarrabi , and Margaret Ross. We’re going to be talking about new research in psilocybin in serious illness. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:03 This is Alex Smith. Thats a lot of S s. I’m fine.

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Episode 236: ARM Episode 16 – Live from SGIM: Best of Antiracism Research at the Society of General Internal Medicine’s 2022 Annual Meeting

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Individuals who believe that genetic differences explain racial differences in health outcomes are more likely to practice race-based medicine. As she embarked on her project, she realized that improving serious illness care would require improving serious illness communication. 2008 Oct;100(10):1235-43. J Natl Med Assoc.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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Not the most common circumstances that people with serious illness face where attention and understanding of what my goals and values are. We’re willing to spend $50,000 a year for individuals for their expensive pharmacy medication. ” I think we started the blog in 2007 or 2008, we were doing that up until 2016.

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

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The second is an idea that Michael and Balfour Mount were really, I think, instrumental in articulating, which is this idea that healing is possible through the course of serious illness. If you read just one, read Palliative Medicine – Just Another Specialty ? by Kearney. I promise its short. And they did.

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

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The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old. So the palliative performance scale, or PPS, is essentially a tool to help clinicians with prognostication for seriously ill or palliative care populations.

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

GeriPal

Eric: We’re going to be talking about telemedicine for those who have serious illness, and this came out of a recent publication Carly did in the San Francisco Chronicle titled Telemedicine Helps People in Pain, Don’t Take That Away. So we’re going to be talking about telemedicine, telehealth for people with serious illness.