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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

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Our last podcast was with Laura Petrillo in 2018 – 5 years ago seems ancient history – though many of the points still apply today (e.g. Should we use Ozempic (if we can find it) in patients with serious illness, which often results in undesirable and profound weight loss? Goldilocks zone). Listen in to learn more!

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

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Alex 00:30 And we are also delighted to welcome Eloise Theisen, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner at Stanford and CEO and co- c ounder of Radical Health Clinician Network, which helps patients use cannabis to treat chronic and age related illness. And I returned to school to become a nurse practitioner.

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Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg

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Summary Transcript Summary Today’s podcast is a follow up to our 2018 podcast with Randy Curtis about the Jumpstart intervention. Today we discuss a new paper in JAMA that tests a stripped down version of the clinician only facing intervention in a pragmatic randomized trial for older adults with serious illness and those 80+.