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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.” Emmy: I would say one big thing, though, is I try to not just make any decision based on a diagnosis, perhaps obviously.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

It’s just a trash can label—not really even a diagnosis, a made-up term that is used as psychological warfare on physicians to control us. So my goal today is to share the wisdom that I have from 25 years as a doctor and 13 years in private practice in an ideal clinic. Housewives were burned out. I’m being real.

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

GeriPal

And particularly in California, we’ve seen lots of medical aid in dying practice kind of go out into these freestanding private practices because there are a lot of bureaucratic tensions with hosting these practices within hospital settings. I mean, there were some similar kinds of challenges.