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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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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

Several years ago, during the first Trump administration, I excoriated the then-nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services , orthopedic surgeon Tom Price, for his poor understanding of cancer screening. s views on cancer screening. See Samoa, 2019.) President-elect Trump has stated that he plans to nominate Robert F.