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

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So they looked at those that died in 2019, did a year back look at total cost of care that showed at six months, if somebody lives six months on average, those in hospice cost the Medicare trust fund 11% less than those who never enrolled. Every time she has a change in level of consciousness, she has to go to the ER. Eric: Okay.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

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Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. It was late on a Friday afternoon in December 2019. Eric 00:18 Throwing us off.

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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. I think a lot of back office function, predicting ER loads and OR loads to do better scheduling of staff. Eric: Yeah. Alex: Can I follow up that question, Eric? Eric: Yeah.

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