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Primary care for all Americans

Common Sense Family Doctor

" The Gilded Age of Medicine is Here ," announced the title of a recent New Yorker article about the tactics of private equity firms that provide infusions of cash to struggling hospitals in order to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in profits by slashing costs to the bone and endangering the health of patients.

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

GeriPal

In our third segment, we explore Amy Linskys study that examined the effect of patient-directed educational materials on clinician deprescribing of potentially low-benefit or high-risk medications, such as proton pump inhibitors, high-dose gabapentin, or risky diabetes medications. Eric 26:43 And this is in primary care, right?

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

GeriPal

Because I remember there was an article maybe six months ago in JAGS, maybe it was longer than that, everybody was talking about ChatGPT-3.5, And the actors were blinded to whether this was a primary care doctor or a chat bot answering them. Let me ask you a question. They had no idea. And they suck at it for a lot of reasons.

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