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

GeriPal

Eloise is a palliative care NP at Stanford and co-founder of The Radicle Health Clinician Network. That put me in the emergency room. Alex 12:24 So one in ten people who said they were using it told their healthcare provider, and the other nine out of ten did not. Is that your feeling, too? Does that have face validity?

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

GeriPal

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. And so I was driven by the fact that I needed more information, and so it sort of became my clinical focus as well as I dabble in the research.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

I’ve been on a quest to build those services and support so that people can make true, informed decisions for themselves and their families. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. Eric: Great, thank you both.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

I was helped into a wheelchair kind of rushed to the emergency room, which was not far away because I was on the medical school campus. Every time you experience pain, it is informed by so many different things. We’ve seen the stigma associated with mental health. I heard this loud click.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. And then three weeks later, you’re in the emergency room and somebody else talks with you for a little while. So if you are sick, I really encourage you, just take the time off. Eric: Yeah.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

I could walk down the hall and get information. So if you think about dementia, it’s on the intersection of aging stigma and mental health stigma. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. I found it to be an incredibly hard journey. Diane: Yeah.

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AI for surrogate decision making?!? Dave Wendler, Jenny Blumenthal-Barby, Teva Brender

GeriPal

And then once we have the surrogate, let’s really try to give them the information they need to make decisions. And so there’s chances that we could do better with this information. You just give the information to the surrogate and say, but if you feel strongly otherwise, don’t do this and that that possibly has.