GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

I’m just stunned even writing that! We’ve come so far as a field. This isn’t to say we’ve “made it” – more to say that we’ve reached a new stage of maturation of the field – in which the evidence we are discussing is frequently high quality randomized trial level data. -@AlexSmithMD Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. Jennifer’s study is most widely known for the “kicker” – not only did it improve quality of life, palliative care was associated with a couple months longer survival. .

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

The number of people who have used MAID in Canada since it was legalized in 2016 has increased year on year from about 1,000 people in the first year to over 13,000 people in 2022. Summary Transcript Summary Four percent of deaths in Canada are due to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). Four percent. It is the slippery slope made real.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Then in the OpenNotes work that I do, I was hired to take something complicated like transparency and patients having access to their full records in medicine, and then making that something that the lay public understood. But before we go into that topic, I think, Liz, you got a song request for Alex. Liz: That’s right. Lovely song.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

For-profit hospices having much higher rates of their patients visiting the emergency department and being hospitalized, in addition to disenrollment. Eric: We have a smorgasbord, if you will, of papers that got published recently around hospice, and that’s why we’re calling it a hospice super special. Is it you, Melissa?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. Summary Transcript Summary I hear the word dignity used a lot in the medical setting, but I’m never sure what people mean when they use it. We talk with Harvey about how he defines “dignity” and how we can understand what it means to our patients. Harvey: I feel welcome.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 21, 2024

We wondered how given that HHS and the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) conducted eight-factor scheduling analyses in 2016, concluding that there was “no substantial evidence that marijuana should be removed from Schedule I.” 12, 2016) ; Denial of Petition to Initiate Proceedings to reschedule Marijuana, 81 Fed. 12, 2016).

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

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. MOC Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.75 And we have some great guests.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

Robert was first asked by one of his own patients for assistance in dying in 1991, far before aid in dying was legalized in California in 2016. To examine how clinicians might act in the face of such bans, we turn to Lori Freedman, who wrote a book about clinicians (primarily Ob-Gyn’s) who work in Catholic Hospitals.

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