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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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After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. I mean, the simple answer is, yes, we should be screening people for substance use disorder. Katie: Yeah.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

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Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. We saw that around 60% of people were screening positive for depression in the last month before death.

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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? For the foreseeable future, it’s going to be right 90%, 95%, 85%, so the safety system, of course, will be, the AI says something, makes a recommendation or gives you a draft diagnosis or drafts your note, and then, the failsafe is, the doctor reads it over. This is GPT-4.

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