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How Doctors Can Save More and Do Less

The Motivated MD

For the better half of 2024, I have been periodically writing posts that are individual articles that double as potential chapters to a future book. In medicine, it is commonly agreed that ‘to err is human’ Most healthcare professionals would agree that humans make mistakes. So yes, humans make mistakes.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. She didn’t die in the hospital. A farmer nearby came to. I’m gonna die.

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

GeriPal

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? At the Mayo clinic, for example, they’ve got a very robust hospital at home program. And the first one was with Zeke Emanuel.

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Buckle Up: DOJ Initiates Rulemaking to Reschedule Marijuana

FDA Law

On Thursday, May 16, 2024 , the Attorney General issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) to initiate rulemaking proceedings to reschedule marijuana. The NPRM was signed by the Attorney General but published by DEA in the Federal Register on May 21, 2024. 44,597 (May 21, 2024). 21 U.S.C. § Basis at 45; NPRM at 44,613.

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

GeriPal

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Eric 26:47 How soon after from a hospitalization, all. And if hospitalized, and then the step quality of life is monitored, if their quality of life dropped, they stepped up. Jennifer 27:11 Yes.