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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

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. It’s by choice, just like in the community. We have about 450 inpatient mental health beds. They suffered from it.

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

GeriPal

And for the listeners not watching YouTube, I’d see maybe it was the big weed magazine thing that you have in the background, Eloise, that got them talking, because it is very stigmatized. I actually do some consulting work with a company called the Farmstand that’s based in a community called the Villages in Florida.

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Normalcy, Introspection, & the Experience of Serious Illness: Bill Gardner, Juliet Jacobsen, and Brad Stuart

GeriPal

He studies the mental health system in the ways in which it has failed children and adolescents, and he writes about his experience with cancer in a blog, the Billgardner.substack.com, Billgardner, one word. I was asking about what was going to be special about the trip or if they were going to do things with their family.

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

GeriPal

What happened is that firstly, in terms of my clinical background, my background is psycho-oncology, so that’s working with patients with cancer and their families, including when they’re going through periods. Eric: And now is it including mental health, psychiatric disorders? But that was separate from MAID.

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