FDA Law

JANUARY 18, 2024

Houck — In August 2023 the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) and Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recommended that the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) reschedule marijuana from schedule I under the federal Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) to schedule III. By Larry K.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So like as an example, in New York State, if someone has no healthcare proxy that they’ve designated, there is a legal structure by which we can assign a surrogate, whereas other states don’t have that same structure. But they also did not do the DPOA for healthcare form. So there’s no healthcare surrogate.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I talked about lack of prestige and respect, and I talked about how healthcare system leaders and medical school deans don’t always seem to value the field of geriatrics. But then I realized who I wasn’t hearing from, I did not hear from the CEO of my organization, my healthcare organization. One was very surprising.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Have you thought about that?

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. Paramedics can provide life-saving treatment on the way to the hospital.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And I think the crisis that we’re in right now in healthcare delivery, the idea of laying down my badge, I think that’s maybe a metaphor for being a sheriff, but what about being a healthcare provider? And so I think that’s why it has its moment now even in 2023. So I just can’t keep going. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hot off the press is a brand spanking new updated 2023 AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults. Todd: There are some studies that’ll show decreased readmission if they’re stopped in hospital. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

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. We don’t want people dying in the hospital if their goal is to be at home.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. I guess the question for you, Naomi, is as a chaplain, what is the role do you think of the other healthcare providers, the nurses, the doctors, the pharmacists in broaching spiritual suffering, existential suffering?

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Weve covered psychedelics on the podcast beforefirst in 2019 with Ira Byock, where we explored their potential role in medicine , and then again in 2023 with Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, and Theora Cimino, focusing on the reasons to approach psychedelic use in patients with caution. James 00:32 Good afternoon.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. It was clear.

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FDA Law

MAY 21, 2024

29, 2023) (“Basis”); NPRM at 44,603. What, if Any, Risk There Is to the Public Health HHS found based on an evaluation of various epidemiological databases for emergency department visits, hospitalizations, unintentional exposures, and overdose deaths that public health risks posed by marijuana are low compared to other drugs of abuse.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

Randy died February 26, 2023. But we were very curious as to what is the impact of talking to people in the hospital setting, how does that look different? But that allows us to look at all patients who meet our eligibility criteria, who are hospitalized and gives us a much broader sample of patients under study.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I chose, not healthcare management, which a lot of my colleagues have done, but I actually chose negotiation and dispute resolution, which I thought was fun, as well as marketing. That’s something that I figured we could definitely go after is using those negotiation skills and then moving them over towards the healthcare setting.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Today we talk with Margot Kushel about how we got here, including: That sense of powerlessness as a clinician when you “fix up” a patient in the hospital, only to discharge them to the street knowing things will fall apart. We would admit them to the hospital. Who doesn’t want to leave the hospital?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. And I was terrified. Why do we need to do more?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about ⅓ of older adults get during a hospital stay). 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. Annals of Int Med.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

But it feels the same in that I was on call a lot over the summer, and I took care of a lot of people behind those hospital walls. And when you look at the numbers, actually last year in 2023, even though we’re in a recovery phase, there were more than 75,000 deaths. And, you know, some people are still getting very sick.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

See the AAHPM Legislative Action Center [link] Write to the DEA, with guidance from AAHPM’s comments to the DEA March 2023. If you look at just the latest statistics in terms of how many hospitals have a dedicated palliative care service, it’s increased and grown over time. Start with a story as Carly did in her Op Ed.

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary I read Farah Stockmans article in the NYT on why attacks on DEI will cost us all , and thought, Yes, and everyone includes harm to our healthcare workforce, our patients, and their families. You see them in the hospital, front of the clinic, and you’ll see them in the back of the clinic.

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