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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. That put me in the emergency room. And then in 2018, when adult use was allowed in California, I think it gave people more permission, but the stigma is still there. But you really should be looking at family history, personal history. Eric 45:24 Yeah.

Medical 100
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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. When patients leave the hospital, the infection may be cured, but the patient and family will need to contend with a host of major new functional and cognitive deficits. You can use that when you’re talking to families about prognostication. It was amazing. Alex: Yeah.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? It’s hard for your family to know. We see them struggle, right? We see how hard it is. We wonder if they were told.

Illness 98
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‘Not Accountable to Anyone’: As Insurers Issue Denials, Some Patients Run Out of Options

Physician's Weekly

But that’s when his family began fighting another adversary: their health insurer, which decided the treatment was “not medically necessary,” according to insurance paperwork. When the Tennant family was told histotripsy would cost $50,000 and insurance wouldn’t cover it, they appealed the denial four times.