GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Alex: We’re delighted to welcome Leonie Herx, who’s a palliative care physician and clinical professor at the University of Calgary. Sonu: Prior to that it was illegal and actually in the criminal code, so not only illegal, it’s actually a prohibition in the clinical code. Bill, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. And in addition, my work in palliative care, I also am a clinical ethicist. So the ethics is a little different, but my clinical experience is just the emotion is much higher in these instances.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. There are clinics. Eric: Wait, so Bonnie Raitt sang a song about hospice in prison?

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GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

We talk about positive aspects of aging, cognitive screening, the line between legitimate concerns and ageism, ableism, advice for a geriatrician asked to comment on TV, frailty and physical disability, images in the press , historical situations including , and an upper age limit for the Presidency, among other issues.

Diagnosis 141

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