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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

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Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. David is a physician who wrote the book “ Stoned: A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana ” and gave a TED talk on “ A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana ” that was watched over 3 million times. Eric 06:53 I loved your book. That put me in the emergency room.

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

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The songs about how saving lives is actually a pretty complicated business. And that’s the complication here is there’s so many things that the staff can be trained on. A lot of assisted livings, it’s acted like it’s not even a choice, that it’s usually the default is you go to the emergency room.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

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When patients leave the hospital, the infection may be cured, but the patient and family will need to contend with a host of major new functional and cognitive deficits. You can use that when you’re talking to families about prognostication. I think it’s really, really complicated. Julien: I like this question.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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Her most recent book is Elderhood. Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. She entertained her family. Thanksgiving’s coming up, you’re having your family, Christmas coming up. You’re going to go traveling to Hawaii with your family, and, you know, you want to die in January. She had grandchildren.