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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. They didn’t have a mentor, a financial provider, all of those things.

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

GeriPal

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. After I asked many people how many used it, and I would say less than one in ten were willing to talk to their healthcare provider.

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Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

GeriPal

Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube. Jill Schneiderhan, a family medicine and integrative medicine doc, helps us think through this. Ivermectin to treat cancer. Stem cell treatments.

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

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson

GeriPal

So this week we’re going to be talking about writing for the lay public, and next week we’ll be publishing a podcast on writing for healthcare providers. I came from a family where you didn’t write things down, somebody could find them and hold you to them or all of that kind of stuff. Rosanne: I certainly do.

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

GeriPal

“Typically when we think about conscience in medical ethics we think about it in terms of a negative claim of conscience, where a clinician refuses (or objects) to provide care. Lisa was writing about providing abortion care, but she just as easily could have been writing about providing medical aid in dying in states where it is illegal.