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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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Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers

GeriPal

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

GeriPal

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

GeriPal

Panelists Bill Gardner, Sonu Gaind, Leonie Herx have stated they have no relationships to disclose. What happened is that firstly, in terms of my clinical background, my background is psycho-oncology, so that’s working with patients with cancer and their families, including when they’re going through periods.

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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: Professional relationship. Alex: … professional relationship to the patient?