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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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Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky

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We talk about positive aspects of aging, cognitive screening, the line between legitimate concerns and ageism, ableism, advice for a geriatrician asked to comment on TV, frailty and physical disability, images in the press , historical situations including , and an upper age limit for the Presidency, among other issues. Ken 21:39 Well, yes.

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