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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? There’s not been literature that I’m aware of that demonstrates how much of this is sort of goal concordant care or not. She has advance dementia. They would be horrified.

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

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And the actors were blinded to whether this was a primary care doctor or a chat bot answering them. The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. They had no idea. ” Alex: Wow.

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