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Dr. Andrew Mayo: Hospice Leaders Face ‘Delicate Balance’ in Today’s Regulatory, Workforce Climate

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Andrew Mayo, chief medical officer at St. Croix Hospice in 2014 as an associate medical director. Mayo has focused on geriatric care for 17 years, completing a residency in family practice at Bethesda St. Croix Hospice. Mayo joined St. Joe’s Hospital in St.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

Alex 01:27 We’re delighted to welcome back Tim F a rrell, who’s a geriatrician, associate chief for Age Friendly care at the University of Utah and chair of the American Geriatric Society Ethics Committee. All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. Tim, welcome back to GeriPal.

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High Peaks Hospice celebrates National Doctors Day with a Spotlight on our Medical Director

High Peaks Hospice

High Peaks Hospice would like to honor our Medical Director, Dr. Curt Gedney for National Doctors Day by sharing information about him with the team. Dr. He fulfilled his commitment plus more by working six years full-time in family medicine and adding on working part-time as a hospice Medical Director.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

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So there are some clinics where you can talk to the medical director and they may give people like a take home dose for the afternoon. We try to document that it’s for cravings or withdrawal symptoms or Sach. There are, you know, some methadone, like methadone clinics have a large variation in terms of how they practice.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

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Should these patients qualify for medical aid in dying medications? Hope is a palliative care doc and hospice medical director at Evergreen Health up near Seattle, Washington. And so I think of it as more like the patient who’s on document dialysis, who. Hope Wechkin brought this topic to us.

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

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He spent a long time as hospice medical director and he founded a national model of care that many of our listeners will be familiar with, AIM, which stands for the Advanced Illness Management program, which has influenced CMS policy. ” So we did these focus groups. I think this is actually bread and butter geriatrics.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

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We discuss: What is considered a hate incident, how is it tracked, what do we know about changes over time The wider impact of Anti-Asian hate on older Asians, who are afraid to go out, leading to anxiety, social isolation, loneliness, decreased exercise, missed appointments and medications. Jessica, welcome back to GeriPal. Geriatrician?