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

GeriPal

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

GeriPal

Another one had to do with the category of medical and mental healthcare providers and care. So yeah, priorities, we have to prioritize things, but I don’t think the medical and mental healthcare components are really at the bottom of the list. ” And there’s just so many priorities.

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

GeriPal

Because our division of geriatrics has such expertise in secondary data analysis and how their retirement studies, can set me off on this task to go read the code books in HRS. I’m wondering, you talked about that patient who was really isolated and coming to the emergency room. Lightning round: magic wand.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

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. Eric 00:13 And, Alex, who do we have with us today?

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

GeriPal

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. And I really want to encourage people to … Wes Ely writes beautifully about that in his book. Julien: Lauren, I totally agree with you. Julien: Absolutely.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

Well, Haider has an intimate relationship with pain, having experienced chronic pain himself and now having dove deep into the latest research on pain for his new book The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain. . We’re going to be talking about pain and your book. It was actually in the first draft of the book.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers. Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? Within two years we converted to clinical program serving in a safety net healthcare system, 50% African-American, 6% dual eligible. And guess what?