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

GeriPal

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

GeriPal

The songs about how saving lives is actually a pretty complicated business. But why I decided to look at medical and mental health care and assisted living. So, that’s why we did this project, the Delphi panel, to say what really should be recommended for medical and mental health care in assisted living?

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

GeriPal

You think about the Book of Job, you think of Buddhism, and it’s so foundational to the field of palliative care. With the mental health, we pulled out the medical model. Eric Cassell’s article, The Nature of Suffering, that you might think suffering would appear in the definition of palliative care.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

So falls, mobility concerns, polypharmacy, comorbidities, nutrition, social support, and mental health. Or if you want to think of it personally, to keep a fatality out of the book of the surgeon. So we tend to talk in terms of a geriatric assessment, the key domains. And Mazie mentioned a few earlier. And I truly believe that.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

I, I gotta say I’m lucky to have trained at the University of Toronto where, you know, there, there, there, there is some good foundational training for the trainees to go through in use health, opioid agonist therapy, et cetera. It might have to do with a sensitivity around mental health.