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

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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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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

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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. I’ve known Michele a long time, since the Joint Medical Program.

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

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It’s all individual. It’s reminding me of what you were saying, Bill, of the individual is not enough and it’s how we sit in these other broader communities that really matters, particularly around these existential questions. And I get to play a Bob Dylan song that’s been on my bucket list to learn. Alex: Mm-hmm.

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

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Eric 06:58 It could be CPR in an individual with metastatic cancer in the icu. And that was the last time that he’d been seen by our healthcare system. The major rock climbing magazine has an obituary section. Could be considered a PULET, potentially unsafe, potentially inducing harm with low evidence of benefit.

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

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But the other was she read an article about our hospice in the May of 2018 New York Times magazine. I am there with individuals who are dying. And you have the individual here who needs the end of life care, who needs this service as well. So she found that incredibly moving, so that’s one of the songs on the album.

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Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson

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

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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.