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Patreon exclusive: RLR 62 – Lisa Sanders, MD, presents a case to R&R

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Lisa Sanders, MD, founder and writer of the popular Diagnosis column for New York Times Magazine, and Laura Glick, MD, STUMP RR through a very exciting case. There will be exclusive schema(s) and/or illness script(s) with this episode for tier 2 and tier 3 Patrons. We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed being stumped.

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

GeriPal

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

GeriPal

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. So less than six months to live.

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

GeriPal

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? If its low evidence but not unsafe, not generally an issue. Think vitamins. Think chemo. What counts as potentially unsafe? Adam shared.

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

GeriPal

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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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. But now we have older people dying of older people illnesses. He struggled with mental illness, substance use disorder.

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Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson

GeriPal

Louise: Well again, if you take that approach, you also get rid of ableism and ageism against children and prejudice against people who are ill. But I was focused on his very ill wife. Whether again, be transportation, food delivery, things like that. It’s much more inclusive and we can align ourselves with others. Eric: Yeah.

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