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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

GeriPal

We’ve invited Jacqueline Kruser and Bob Arnold on this week’s podcast to talk about their recently published JAMA Viewpoint article titled “ Reconsidering the Language of Serious Illness. ” You recently published an article in the New Yorker titled, I can’t even read my own, what was the title again? Of course not.

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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

GeriPal

I love this series of articles because each presents a component of a practical, patient-centered approach to patient-surgeon communication and decision making, and language surgeons (and surgical trainees) can start using in their next patient visit. Alexis, welcome to GeriPal. Alexis: Thanks for having me. Alexis: Yeah.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this. Eric: Which brings us to an article. And it kind of lends you to think about also opioid use disorder and substance use disorder in the aging population, because again, you wrote an article in the… Was it Lancet? Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Yeah.

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Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?

Pallimed

This commentary, the final in our trilogy, expands on these articles to quantify and clarify the extent of Chou’s COI. In November 2003, the Orlando Sentinel published a series of articles on OxyContin, exemplifying the media’s moral panic about opioids (12). opioid policy.

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

GeriPal

Stacy: I honestly read Michael Pollan’s New Yorker article and was really inspired, and cold emailed the group at NYU, and they responded. There was an article in New York Times last week about rampant prescribing of psychedelics. They really wanted to have informed consent, a trustworthy guide, and a therapeutic setting.

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Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly

GeriPal

Today we talk with Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint, and Anne Kelly, authors of a JGIM article on the reasons we shouldn’t stop at “no.” Emily: Looks like informed decision making around family involvement. The patient is sick and getting sicker, and refuses to let you talk with family or other members of her inner circle. Eric: Yeah.

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Wash. Federal Judge Pokes Hole in New Wave of Vaccine Mandate Challenges

Healthcare Law Insights blog

The thrust of these cases is that COVID vaccines were necessarily “investigational” and, therefore, vaccine mandates subjected individuals to “medical research” without their informed consent. As of the date of this article, only one court has ruled on these arguments, and it straightforwardly agreed with the defense.