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

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. And for the listeners not watching YouTube, I’d see maybe it was the big weed magazine thing that you have in the background, Eloise, that got them talking, because it is very stigmatized. But you really should be looking at family history, personal history.

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

GeriPal

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. You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). So figured out a little harmonica- Eric: That was wonderful.

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

GeriPal

And he surveyed all the nurses who subscribed to nursing, I think it was like Nursing Magazine or something, or journal. This is going to be harmful to them and their family at the end of life. And of the 1100 or so nurses who responded, some high proportion had engaged in medical aid in dying.

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Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

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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