GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

To delve into these questions, we spoke with Hope Wechkin, medical director of EvergreenHealth home hospice, who authored an article describing a process of Minimal Comfort Feeding (MCF) for patients who have expressed an interest in not wanting to live with advanced dementia. Eric 01:13 Yeah, you got to jump in. Take it over.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

And I have gone through my not-so-long career, but it’s coming up on nine years now, seeing the way that we have talked about CPR in such problematic ways, in ways that really do not enable true informed consent. So I think consenting to a course of treatment involves that two-way conversation. Sunita: Oh, yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

And Katie, I was going through your Twitter feed, and a tweet I noticed was this one, “All opioid guidelines caution long-term use in people with active substance use disorder.” But nonetheless, the methadone clinic system is entirely separate from the rest of the healthcare system. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Then they just looked at those people who were healthcare agents as assigned by durable power of attorney for healthcare and it didn’t really change anything. But I do think that there’s a tension here, which is that in order for these algorithms to work, you need to feed them a ton of data.

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