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

GeriPal

So I didn’t mention this at the beginning, but after my time as President of Canadian Psychiatric Association, I actually also went on to be the physician chair of my former hospital’s MAID team. Because in medicine as somebody who works in the hospital, there’s always other treatment options. Eric: Thank you Bill.

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

GeriPal

Alex: She’s also associate professor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Harvard Medical School. The post Normalcy, Introspection, & the Experience of Serious Illness: Bill Gardner, Juliet Jacobsen, and Brad Stuart appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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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. When they built a new prison hospital in Stockton, the dialysis went there. These older patients are costing a ton in healthcare costs.

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

GeriPal

For this weekly treatment, the cancer team that had been consulted in the hospital told him this is nonsense. The major rock climbing magazine has an obituary section. And they would inject it back into him to treat his cancer for the low cost of $400 a treatment. And of course they were thrown out of the room immediately.

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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. Jeff: G1 is a hospital wing. The post Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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

GeriPal

To examine how clinicians might act in the face of such bans, we turn to Lori Freedman, who wrote a book about clinicians (primarily Ob-Gyn’s) who work in Catholic Hospitals. Lori Freedman’s book (forthcoming) – Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals. Lisa Harris piece mentioned on podcast.

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Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

American Psychiatric Association, APA, came out with it because I’ll read it on the fact magazine in 1964 during that race that said that 1189 psychiatrists say Goldwater is psychologically unfit to be president. For hospitalization, for death, for all sorts of adverse events, I think are a reason for concern. Eric 29:15 Yeah.

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