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

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ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And here, just to clarify, we’re using that term to mean, people diagnosed with cancer, not necessarily people who were treated with curative intent. So, among folks ever diagnosed with head and neck cancers, prevalence of substance use disorders was 9%.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

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ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. So these different standardized measures that patients can complete either right before their appointment or during their appointment right before they see the doctor or something like this, and it’s kind of standardized. Eric: What’s a PRO?

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

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And I wonder, now, was this 2024 version sort of a redo? Would you have that same pessimism that you had then today about these predictive algorithms and their ability to transform healthcare? You and I would listen to a suggested list of diagnoses and say, “That’s a reasonable idea. They had no idea. Bob: Be well.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

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So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. Eric 16:38 So everybody was diagnosed with an advanced lung cancer sometime in the last twelve weeks and then they were randomized. That’s a lot of appointments that we have to account for over time.