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Green Practice News: May 2025

My Green Doctor

Powering Health, Protecting the Planet – Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Healthcare professionals have always been trusted voices on public health. hospital upwards of $240,000 over 5 years. hospital could save $240,000 per year.” Now, more than ever, they must also become champions of planetary health.

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Psilocybin in Serious Illness: James Downar, Ali John Zarrabi and Margaret Ross

GeriPal

Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. Alex 06:03 Is psilocybin that’s used for medicinal purposes in your studies, for example, is that manufactured or is it derived directly from mushrooms? So it really helped form community between patients and helped build community with the palliative team that was involved.

Illness 107
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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

Eric: And we have Tasce Bongiovanni, who is an acute care trauma surgeon at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital. And for that reason, there was actually an enormous lawsuit, and the manufacturer was fined, now I think 20 years ago, in the millions and millions of dollars for off-label prescribing. Nisha: Thank you so much.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

The challenge is not that people made decisions differently, and it was difficult, the challenge was the healthcare professionals who said, “This is not working for me. So every transition into the hospital, every transition out of the hospital. It was to the people who were asking for the decision to be made.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

Leslie Wharton is a leader in the 26,000 member grassroots organization Elders Climate Action , which organizes older adults to create communities engaged in making a difference at local, state, and national levels. What’s our role in changing the healthcare system, in our own healthcare system.

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Buckle Up: DOJ Initiates Rulemaking to Reschedule Marijuana

FDA Law

What, if Any, Risk There Is to the Public Health HHS found based on an evaluation of various epidemiological databases for emergency department visits, hospitalizations, unintentional exposures, and overdose deaths that public health risks posed by marijuana are low compared to other drugs of abuse. Basis at 45; NPRM at 44,613.

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COVID Updates: A Podcast with Peter Chin-Hong and Lona Mody

GeriPal

But it feels the same in that I was on call a lot over the summer, and I took care of a lot of people behind those hospital walls. And we don’t see hospitals being strained as much anymore. And I was like, I don’t see much in the community right now. You know, of course, serious disease, hospitalization and death.