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

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Alex: And a voice that will be very familiar to our listeners, a dynamic and enthusiastic social worker in palliative care at the San Francisco VA, Anne Kelly. Emily: Looks like informed decision making around family involvement. Alex: And of course, Lynn Flint, who’s a palliative care physician at the San Francisco VA.

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

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And we chose that in part because that will just help with the scientific question of the blinding, but there’s data in how we can use oral ketamine in patients with cancer who are in hospice, and they do have some benefit in maybe mood or anxiety that is at least shortly lived, if not lasts more than a week or so.