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

GeriPal

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. What made this trial, I would say, unique, is that you have a palliative care physician and nurse following people with medication tapering in order to be dosed. So medication adjustments.

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

GeriPal

So I thought… And I was doing this for the United States Preventive Services Task Force because we were looking at the evidence to what’s the benefit and harm of screening, and I had to look all over. He created fee for service, special fee for depression. But for other- Diane: And it’s on the medical side.

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

GeriPal

Alex: We are delighted to welcome Joe Rotella, who’s the Chief Medical Officer of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. 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. So now that the emergency response has ended, what’s to be done?