GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. Welcome back, Ashwin. Ashwin Kotwal: Excited to be back. Eric: Now, it’s interesting. Alex: Great.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Four percent of deaths in Canada are due to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). Four percent. The number of people who have used MAID in Canada since it was legalized in 2016 has increased year on year from about 1,000 people in the first year to over 13,000 people in 2022. It is the slippery slope made real. Oh my gosh.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Today we discuss: What is the best terminology? Homelessness? Marginally housed? What makes palliative care for people experiencing homelessness challenging? What makes it rewarding? What is unique about the practice of palliative care for people experiencing homelessness? And I gonna choose Bryan Adams, summer of 69. Naheed 03:48 Yeah, for sure.

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Tiny Physician

MARCH 30, 2022

Damage The plaintiff must be able to prove that he/she suffered harm because of the treatment which can be physical, financial, or mental. But, destroying hospital property and harassing health care professionals is a barbaric way to react. Her previous delivery (twins) was conducted at the same hospital itself.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

But before we go into all of that, I think, Bill, you have a song request for Alex. Bill 01:52 I do. Bill 01:53 Alex asked me for a song that was resonating in my head at the time, and it would be Guy Clark’s song, T he Cape. Eric 02:01 Why guy Clark’s the Cape? Bill 02:03 Oh, it’s a long story. I’ll make sure. Here we go.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? And the government can do something about that?!? Yes indeed, we like to hammer that home regularly, dear listeners. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:12 This is Alex Smith. Eric 00:13 And Alex, who do we have with us today? Is it you, Rebecca?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary To my teenagers, climate change is an existential crisis. It’s the end of the world as we know it. They decry the lack of serious attention and prioritization this issue has in the US. My kids ask – why don’t adults care about this issue the same way that they and their friends care about it? Ruth: Thank you.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality. Jessica, welcome back to GeriPal. Jessica 00:49 Happy to be here. Eric 00:50 So we’re going to be talking about anti-asian hate and the older adult. But I had a lot of fun with it.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

How has the history of redlining and the federal tax subsidy of wealthy (mostly white) people in the form of a mortgage interest deduction contributed to racial inequalities in homelessness? What can we do about it? What are the highest yield interventions and policy changes? What should we call it – homeless or unhoused? Eric: I love this.

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FDA Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Rescheduling increases the ability to research cannabis to determine the physical and mental impacts of cannabis use. The regulated cannabis marketplace brings in billions of dollars in revenue into state and federal governments, with predictions that cannabis sales will exceed $53 billion by 2027. In other words, no rescheduling.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. We’ll cover why the GUIDE model is important (hint – it all comes down to funding), how it was developed, what components will it include, and how it will be evaluated.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

Well, on today’s podcast we invite Monica Gandhi to sum up the evidence to date about how best to prevent getting COVID (or at least the severe outcomes of the disease) and how to treat it, including the role of Paxlovid in symptomatic disease. A good twitter criticism of the CDC 1 in 5 COVID survivors have long COVID study. Transcript. Alex: Great.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And so I’m not sure if this is true for Joe or for Brooke, but even before the pandemic in our practice here, we saw somewhere around 40 to 50% of our patients via telemedicine anyway, because we have a catchment area of patients who live very far away, many of whom have a lot of physical disability and other limitations to coming in person.

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

What a Wonderful World could be sung in irony at this moment. I hope we all take it literally, with the hope this podcast ends with. Alex Smith ** This podcast is not CME eligible. To learn more about CME for other GeriPal episodes, click here. Transcript Eric 00:00 Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. It is a terrific book. Alex 02:07 Yeah, I love it.

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