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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. Eric: Wait, so Bonnie Raitt sang a song about hospice in prison?

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Normalcy, Introspection, & the Experience of Serious Illness: Bill Gardner, Juliet Jacobsen, and Brad Stuart

GeriPal

I was asking about what was going to be special about the trip or if they were going to do things with their family. So she had them early in diagnosis and then a little bit later. And I get to play a Bob Dylan song that’s been on my bucket list to learn. ” I was like, “Yeah, you’re right about that. Brad: Yeah.

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

GeriPal

What happened is that firstly, in terms of my clinical background, my background is psycho-oncology, so that’s working with patients with cancer and their families, including when they’re going through periods. Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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

GeriPal

And the argument was framed more as a healthcare choice made by individuals in conjunction with their clinicians. And he surveyed all the nurses who subscribed to nursing, I think it was like Nursing Magazine or something, or journal. Robert: And I’m not going to what the individual provider believes is right or wrong.

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Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Ken Covinsky reminds us that we should not be making a diagnosis based on what we see on TV, and that if a patient’s daughter expressed a concern that their parent “wasn’t right,” we would conduct an in depth evaluation that might last an hour. Eric 04:17 How do you think about that? Ken 04:20 I think that was very well said, Louise.

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