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Critics Suggest FDA Approving Aduhelm Will Erode the “Public Trust”: What About Patients’ Trust?

FDA Law Blog

Janet Woodcock’s leadership, identified the need for more systematic patient engagement — a way to improve representativeness and be more proactive rather than reactive to interacting with patient communities. So, we crafted the Patient-Focused Drug Development, or PFDD, a commitment that was agreed to in PDUFA V. 28, 2020).

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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? Michele: Yeah.

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

GeriPal

It’s all individual. 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.

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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. I am there with individuals who are dying. 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 that touches you. I work at the VA.

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

GeriPal

So it started off for individuals with a terminal illness. All of the evidence shows that for mental illnesses in individual cases of mental illness, we cannot make those predictions. You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). I think that’s a big mistake.

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Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson

GeriPal

And then I feel like when I’m in clinic I’m helping individuals, and you only have so much time to help so many people. Are you trying to reach people in your local community? I like crafting sentences, I like thinking through things in the way I can. When I write, I learn a ton from that. Something like that.

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