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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

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It used to be a much more complicated model. And then, you chose for the intervention to include a nurse and a social worker. As a nurse, how challenging would it be to do eight hours of training and jump into this complicated world? So, the docs actually wrote orders for tests, medications, consults. David: Right.

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

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Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. Alex 00:30 And we are also delighted to welcome Eloise Theisen, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner at Stanford and CEO and co- c ounder of Radical Health Clinician Network, which helps patients use cannabis to treat chronic and age related illness.

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

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So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying. There was a case in BC a few months ago of a woman with mental health issues who had suffered from depression, chronic suicidality at times. And like 99.8%

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