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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. She entertained her family. Thanksgiving’s coming up, you’re having your family, Christmas coming up. You’re going to go traveling to Hawaii with your family, and, you know, you want to die in January. This shouldn’t have happened. We can make this better.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

Born into a family of physicians who warned her not to pursue medicine. An inspiring leader and educator of the next generation of physicians, Doctor Wible has been named one of the 2015 Women Leaders in Medicine and the “Physicians Guardian Angel.” I’m not kidding like my first family picture with my parents was when I was 45.

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Conscientous Provision of MAID and Abortion: Robert Brody, Lori Freedman, Mara Buchbinder

GeriPal

And particularly in California, we’ve seen lots of medical aid in dying practice kind of go out into these freestanding private practices because there are a lot of bureaucratic tensions with hosting these practices within hospital settings. This is going to be harmful to them and their family at the end of life.