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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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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? I think a lot of back office function, predicting ER loads and OR loads to do better scheduling of staff. And it happened, and it happened in large part, as you note, because of enormous stimulus from the US government for health systems to adopt electronic health records.