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

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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. And, David, I’m going to start off with you because you wrote an entire book about this. Eric 06:53 I loved your book.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

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Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. I came across these questions on loneliness that I had never heard of.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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Her most recent book is Elderhood. You know, she would have had 90 really good years, and she would have just gone into a coma with no blood pressure and died, you know, with, like, a day and a half of illness. He made it very clear that he called me by looking my number up in the phone book. Louise, welcome back to GeriPal.