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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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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. Eric: Wait, so Bonnie Raitt sang a song about hospice in prison?

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

GeriPal

It’s a community of people you’re joining to whom you’re going to be in bonds of love and that this is the key to coping with suffering, I guess if I had to put it in five words or whatever, how many words that was. Juliet: Just I think this notion of communities coming more into our field. It is very active here.

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Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers

GeriPal

But the other was she read an article about our hospice in the May of 2018 New York Times magazine. Jerry: Well, for me it’s about, I may have not chose this to be my community, but I chose the actions that led this to be my community. So she found that incredibly moving, so that’s one of the songs on the album.

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

GeriPal

The first one is I would want the general public and healthcare professionals to really understand actually what natural dying and death look like. Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Eric: Thank you Bill.

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Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson

GeriPal

Alex: Can I ask for, if we have listeners who are interested in this sort of avenue of writing for the lay public, should they start with a book or would you advise that they instead start with something else, like a short story, an essay for a local paper or national paper or a magazine? Something like that. What’s like the first step?

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