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

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Summary Transcript CME Summary Weve covered psychedelics on the podcast beforefirst in 2019 with Ira Byock, where we explored their potential role in medicine , and then again in 2023 with Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, and Theora Cimino, focusing on the reasons to approach psychedelic use in patients with caution. This is Eric Widera.

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

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Two of our guests today, Stacy Fischer and Brian Anderson, are involved in large multicenter trials of psychedelics for patients with advanced cancer (Fischer) or life-limiting illness (Anderson). In our prior podcast with Ira Byock on psychedelics in 2019 we talked primarily about the potential of psychedelics. That’s great.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

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Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. Like I said, the patient screened positive for it. Ashwin Kotwal: Oh, wow.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

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And for about five years, my mom was declining from a dementia illness, we think something Parkinsonian. It was late on a Friday afternoon in December 2019. So my parents, I’m an only child and my parents were living in Florida, in Miami, which is where I grew up. And they were living in the house that I grew up in.

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