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

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To be eligible in Canada patients must have a “ grievous and irremediable ” condition, including disability ; they do not have to have a terminal illness with a prognosis of less than 6 months. A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. But that was separate from MAID.

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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. Eric 45:24 Yeah.

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Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky

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If you are concerned that your silence can be a form of complicity and bad behavior, too, we have a certain amount of expertise. So the mere fact that you see somebody walking more stiffly or walking more slowly or, God forbid, like that horrendous magazine cover of persons in walkers is like, God, like, oh, you’re in a walker.

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