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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. David is a physician who wrote the book “ Stoned: A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana ” and gave a TED talk on “ A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana ” that was watched over 3 million times. David, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. David 00:26 Thanks.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

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Why is that important in the emergency room? Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care. Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? Yeah, that’s a more complicated story. Eric 06:50 And Fernanda.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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The pneumonia could get treated, but I think geriatricians, actually, were well aware of iatrogenic complications of care and quality gaps, even well before the IOM reports of the late 1990s and the like. And we then did a bunch of work to develop medical criteria, to choose the right patients for hospital-at-home.

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