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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

As somebody who has been part of literally more non-profits than I can remember, non-profit governance structures is a pain in the ass. Working with Abe Brody at NYU to do a randomized control trial of an intervention for education, for psychotropic use in end stage dementia patients. (singing) Ira: Thank you very much. Eric: Okay.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program. He’s the founder and leader of the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless program in Toronto, Palliative care physician at St. Government is not the 51st state.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

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. Eric 42:11 But how much of it is like Winston Churchill, like, democracy is the worst form of government. The intention was to place it in the beds in nursing homes.

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

GeriPal

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. Similar things will happen with AI, without question.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

You add to that employment discrimination, criminal justice discrimination, and of course educational system discrimination, and of course, we pay for our public schools based on local taxes. In what moral universe is a federal government deeply subsidizing my housing and not subsidizing that of my patients? We basically met them.