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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
APHA 2005
 
Session: Medical Marijuana: Why This Issue Is More Important to Health Care Than Just Cannabis
4097.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Oral
Medical Marijuana: Why This Issue Is More Important to Health Care Than Just Cannabis
Panel Covering I. The Law • The state of states rights • The right to privacy of medical records (Bearman v. Joseph) • Can juries practice medicine • What is medicine and who says so • What is medicine and who says so II. What's happening now • Contemporary science • Patient demographics • Treatment of pain • Case studies III. Medical, Organizational and Patient Advisory Groups Support IV. The GW Pharmaceuticals/Bayer AG Story
Learning Objectives: See individual abstracts
Organizer(s):David L. Bearman, MD
Moderator(s):David L. Bearman, MD
12:30 PM* SESSION ABSTRACT* Medical Marijuana: Why this issue is more important to health care than just cannabis
David L. Bearman, MD
12:31 PMScience and medical efficacy of medicinal cannabis
Mary Lynn Mathre, RN, MSN, CARN
12:50 PMAssessing medical quality: Who sets the standard and how
Frank Lucido, MD
1:10 PMMedical professional’s obligation to defend traditional medical values
David L. Bearman, MD
1:30 PMPanel Discussion
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs
Endorsed by:Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Public Health Nursing; Socialist Caucus

The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA