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Green Practice News: April 2025

My Green Doctor

Todd Sack concludes that, “ the medical office waiting room appears to be an accepted, time-efficient, and effective site to communicate knowledge on climate change and health. ” According to the 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown, mortality caused by extreme heat events increased by 53.7% The healthcare sector contributes 8.5%

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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. Reading Ira’s article, it essentially was the VITAS Medical Director job description.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

[link] Promising Practice Recognition PEACH was named a Promising Practice in equity-oriented palliative care as part of a national initiative funded by Health Canada, operated by Healthcare Excellence Canada & the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer. So we did a podcast on aging and homelessness with Margot Kushel in 2023.

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Advanced Pain Management in Cancer: Janet Abrahm

GeriPal

Eric and I are working on it…maybe by 2023? . Janet Abrahm is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and the Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care. And yes, this would be a great one for CME. AlexSmithMD. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast!

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

And he’s also chaired the California Pacific Medical Center’s ethics committee since 1985. Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. But one of the things I worry about, when we really know medically where this case is going and we find, how many times has this happened?

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Marijuana: Top Ten Reasons for Descheduling, Rescheduling or Not

FDA Law

We blogged on the December 5, 2023, letter from six Democratic governors to President Biden). The former officials implore following the science demonstrating marijuana’s high addictive potential, its lack of accepted medical use, and the rescheduling impact on prosecuting drug trafficking organizations. Letter to U.S.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

We discuss: What is considered a hate incident, how is it tracked, what do we know about changes over time The wider impact of Anti-Asian hate on older Asians, who are afraid to go out, leading to anxiety, social isolation, loneliness, decreased exercise, missed appointments and medications. Eric 14:41 You mentioned the study.