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

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Summary Transcript Summary How do people react when they hear they have a serious illness? And some people, in addition or instead, engage in deep introspection on how to make meaning or live with or understand this experience of serious illness. Shock, “like a car is rushing straight at me” (says Bill Gardner on our podcast).

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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

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Alex 00:30 And we are also delighted to welcome Eloise Theisen, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner at Stanford and CEO and co- c ounder of Radical Health Clinician Network, which helps patients use cannabis to treat chronic and age related illness. Eloise, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. And I kind of just took off from there.

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

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To be eligible in Canada patients must have a “ grievous and irremediable ” condition, including disability ; they do not have to have a terminal illness with a prognosis of less than 6 months. A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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

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If its potentially unsafe, but has robust evidence, well thats most of the treatments we offer seriously ill patients! Do elements of care that are often administered to seriously ill patients count? And that was the last time that he’d been seen by our healthcare system. Think vitamins. Think chemo. Animal studies?

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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. But now we have older people dying of older people illnesses. Michele: Yep.

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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. He wrote a New York Times bestseller and now we have quality and safety in every aspect of healthcare. But I was focused on his very ill wife. Eric: Yeah.

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Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky

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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. Eric 09:54 So it’s interesting because there is such thing called the Goldwater rule. Louise 23:31 With ageism.

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