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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

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The intervention involved mailing medication-specific brochures to patients before their primary care appointments (click here for the brochure ). It’s called Danton, and it was just published mid last year, mid 2024. The results showed a modest but significant increase in deprescribing rates among the intervention group.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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He died in 2024. Like, I’ve had people who’ve appointed their super as their healthcare decision makers and certainly, I mean, I feel like every, every time we talk about what’s changed in, in day to day life, we reflect on Covid. I’m a little bit of a throwback kind of 70s 80s guy.

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AI for surrogate decision making?!? Dave Wendler, Jenny Blumenthal-Barby, Teva Brender

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Or, to phrase the question for 2024, Can AI do better? Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? Can we do better?