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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. Do you want one?

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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. Another one had to do with the category of medical and mental healthcare providers and care. And that’s the complication here is there’s so many things that the staff can be trained on. And I also think it’s a little bit topical.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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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. Her most recent book is Elderhood. Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. We can make this better.

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

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That said, I think we, and I mean collectively, not just in critical care, I think we as a healthcare system, I think we’re really good at keeping people alive. I think it’s really, really complicated. And I really want to encourage people to … Wes Ely writes beautifully about that in his book. All the above.