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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. Louise, welcome back to GeriPal.

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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? And the actors were blinded to whether this was a primary care doctor or a chat bot answering them. 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.

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2024 Summer Pinecones E-Newsletter -- ADVOCACY News

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

Pat Connolly reported on the 2024 Maine Legislative Session: It was a short but busy session in Augusta this year. This bill would preclude the government from charging interest on their loans during when they are unable to afford payments on the principal. Here in Maine the "shorter" Legislative Session was quite full!