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

GeriPal

And for the listeners not watching YouTube, I’d see maybe it was the big weed magazine thing that you have in the background, Eloise, that got them talking, because it is very stigmatized. David 12:31 Yeah, if you believe the results of an informal. They set up a medical cannabis clinic, has some great slides and information.

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

GeriPal

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. We can talk about the informal and the formal differences in expansion later. As Leonie is saying, there are some who are advocating that everyone should be informed of this as an option.

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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. It was built in 1955, so it wasn’t designed for a geriatric population. Michele: So that number’s really growing.

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Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers

GeriPal

But the other was she read an article about our hospice in the May of 2018 New York Times magazine. And nurses get a lot more information from us than they can directly from the inmate because they’ll befriend us and trust us and rely on us, and they’ll open up about their religious needs, their medical needs and everything else.

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Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson

GeriPal

You write a scholarly article in geriatrics, it’s not dissimilar. And I think when groups like JAMA or JAG or the leaders of the American Geriatric Society say we have to call everyone older adult, they’re doing a disservice to all of us. And I tend to think of writing as my version of public health. That helps.

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Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Alex 00:06 Today we’re delighted to welcome back Louise Aronson, geriatrician professor of medicine at UCSF in the division of Geriatrics, author of E lderhood. Alex 00:19 And we have Ken Co vinsky, frequent host, frequent guest on this podcast, who is also in geriatrics at UCSF in the division of Geriatrics.