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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. And then I met a patient in clinic once who asked me a lot of really intelligent questions about medical cannabis, what it does. I’d been a nurse at the time, and I went back to do my clinicals in an oncology clinic locally. They just kept at it.

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

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Alex: We’re delighted to welcome Leonie Herx, who’s a palliative care physician and clinical professor at the University of Calgary. So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying. Bill: Thank you.

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Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky

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Ken Covinsky reminds us that we should not be making a diagnosis based on what we see on TV, and that if a patient’s daughter expressed a concern that their parent “wasn’t right,” we would conduct an in depth evaluation that might last an hour. Worried about what that means over the next two, four, six years, whatever their terms are.

Diagnosis 141