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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. When they built a new prison hospital in Stockton, the dialysis went there.

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

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Alex: She’s also associate professor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Harvard Medical School. It’s all individual. And I get to play a Bob Dylan song that’s been on my bucket list to learn. Alex: She is working in Sweden and researching in Sweden, in Lund. Did I say it right, Lund? Juliet: Lund, yeah. Alex: Lund.

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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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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. 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.

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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. Jeff: G1 is a hospital wing. And you have the individual here who needs the end of life care, who needs this service as well. So that touches you. I work at the VA.

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

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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. 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.

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Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky

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I think what ageism, when you get right down to it, is, is not really seeing the individual in front of you and the individual in the setting of what they’re trying to accomplish and what matters to them, that it’s always appropriate. Eric 04:17 How do you think about that? Interestingly enough, Ama also has a similar rule.

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