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

GeriPal

If you believe the evidence for efficacy to manage symptoms like neuropathic pain, how do you even start to think about recommending these products to patients? And then I met a patient in clinic once who asked me a lot of really intelligent questions about medical cannabis, what it does. Eloise, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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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. Healthcare staff were afraid of patients with HIV because there wasn’t clarity on how it was transmitted.

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

GeriPal

This sort of stands in the face of what you and I learned in palliative care that illness is an opportunity for spiritual growth and transformation from what we have strived towards in caring for many of our patients. One colleagues of mine in the Netherlands did just interviews with 30 cancer patients and this theme kept coming out.

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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. It’s emotionally hard, but it’s also rewarding because I have such a meaningful life, especially when you see the family members of the patient are so grateful that you’re there. ” He was hardcore.

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

GeriPal

In further contrast to the United States, MAID in Canada is almost entirely administered by a clinician, whereas in the United States patients must self administer. And importantly the patient has to have capacity and they have to be able to take the drug themselves. So being well and also potentially periods of dying. Alex: Oh.

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Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson

GeriPal

Rosanne: I think I was motivated by the number of times patients asked me to get rid of their pot-bellies, quite honestly. So I felt like over all these years I have learned so much from my patients and from the science, that it should be out there in one place where people can easily access it and help themselves. Eric: Yeah.

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