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Green Practice News: April 2025

My Green Doctor

According to the 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown, mortality caused by extreme heat events increased by 53.7% Earth Day is an opportunity for medical professionals to lead the conversation on how sustainability directly affects health. The healthcare sector contributes 8.5% from 2000 to 2018 among people over 65 years old.

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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. (singing) Ira: Thank you very much. JAMA Health Forum.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

So we did a podcast on aging and homelessness with Margot Kushel in 2023. Government is not the 51st state. The post PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Naheed 00:31 Thanks so much for having me here.

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Advanced Pain Management in Cancer: Janet Abrahm

GeriPal

Eric and I are working on it…maybe by 2023? . Eric: You got this depot in the high layer, so absorption is really governed by the microcirculation to that stratum corneum and skin… Alex: We’re going deep here – Eric said “stratum corneum. And yes, this would be a great one for CME. AlexSmithMD. Transcript.

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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. Eric 42:11 But how much of it is like Winston Churchill, like, democracy is the worst form of government. Which, for those who haven’t read Louise’s article, knows that that’s a leading question to Louise. Bill 42:22 I did not.

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Marijuana: Top Ten Reasons for Descheduling, Rescheduling or Not

FDA Law Blog

We blogged on the December 5, 2023, letter from six Democratic governors to President Biden). The regulated cannabis marketplace brings in billions of dollars in revenue into state and federal governments, with predictions that cannabis sales will exceed $53 billion by 2027. Letter to U.S.

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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.