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

GeriPal

So she had them early in diagnosis and then a little bit later. Eric: Well, I’m going to jump around a little bit because I’m going to go, Brad, I had a chance to read some of your book and one of the chapters was on your own prostate cancer diagnosis. It’s all individual. Brad: Yeah. It’s impressive.

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

GeriPal

Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. The last time we had you on the podcast, Bill, you talked about your cancer diagnosis and a personal experience with MAID, which you also, we’ll have a link to your blog post too about this as well. So they have to self-administer. Eric: Yeah.

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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. Eric: Does the chaplaincy also provide support to them, or can they visit the hospice unit, those individuals? Michele: 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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