GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. Michele: Yep.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

But the other was she read an article about our hospice in the May of 2018 New York Times magazine. And back then, mostly we took care of each other in the cells and it was like a family thing. AIDs didn’t know any color or creed, so it was a family thing, we all took care of each other. Allan: 35 years. Eric: 35 years.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

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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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

I was asking about what was going to be special about the trip or if they were going to do things with their family. I’ve got to think that through, but it felt to me like more, all right, I’m not living anymore with my shoulder to the wheel entirely to try to improve the treatment experience for kids and their family.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

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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GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

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. And then I feel like when I’m in clinic I’m helping individuals, and you only have so much time to help so many people. Rosanne: I certainly do.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

On the one hand, when I hear of Ob-Gyn’s in Catholic Healthcare systems using “workarounds” to provide reproductive care, I’m standing up and cheering on the inside. And she has a forthcoming book, Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American Catholic Healthcare Systems, which will come out Spring-ish. Right, Lori? Lori: Yeah.

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