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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law Blog

Houck — Separate decisions by federal district courts in Texas and Puerto Rico in the past two months provide cautionary tales for every pharmacy and wholesale distributor dispensing or distributing controlled substances. 11, 2023 ( DOJ Press Release ). 6, 2023 ( DOJ Press Release ). By Larry K. Zarzamora Press Release.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

JAMA IM 2023 A shout-out to my NPR episode on 1A titled the “State of Hospice Care” DISCLAIMER While we filmed in Montreal during the Annual Assembly, all opinions expressed in this podcast are independent of AAHPM and HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. She happened to focus on some specific for-profit hospice providers. JAMA Health Forum.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. So we did a podcast on aging and homelessness with Margot Kushel in 2023. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. those experiencing homelessness).

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. And it’s not the same, but it does provide information.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

In the United States in 2023, the truth of the matter is you don’t need very many individual risk factors to become homeless. In what moral universe is a federal government deeply subsidizing my housing and not subsidizing that of my patients? The nice thing about older folks is we often know what their incomes are.