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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

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Working with Abe Brody at NYU to do a randomized control trial of an intervention for education, for psychotropic use in end stage dementia patients. And even up to a year out across diagnoses, every diagnoses including neurodegenerative diseases, costs less for those enrolled in hospice compared to not. Eric: Okay.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

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Alex: In 2019 … You wrote two viewpoints about AI recently in JAMA, relatively recently. I guess, 2019, and then, one again about last month or so. The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts.

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