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

GeriPal

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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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

Today we talk with experts Janet Ho, Sach Kale, and Julie Childers about opioid use disorder and serious illness. Eric 00:51 So we’re gonna be talking about caring for people with serious illness and substance abuse. Who has a song request for Alex before we talk about substance use disorder and serious illness?

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

GeriPal

And for about five years, my mom was declining from a dementia illness, we think something Parkinsonian. It was all covered by my mom’s insurance. 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.

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RFK Jr. and vaccine politics

Common Sense Family Doctor

The majority of the department's budget funds the Medicare and Medicaid health insurance programs. See Samoa, 2019.) going wild on health" when going wild means more cavities for kids, more foodborne illnesses, and more suffering from vaccine-preventable diseases. During the pandemic, RFK Jr. become the next Secretary of HHS.

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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. Health insurers issue millions of denials every year. “They’re, like, not accountable to anyone.” Senate report.