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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

By the time he got into us, the tumor grew, he had experienced, he was experiencing significant pain and so trauma, informed care and building a relationship with him was such a big part of the care. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. 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. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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

GeriPal

It was specific to the relationship with the patient, the patient’s social context in which they might take this information. I think a lot of back office function, predicting ER loads and OR loads to do better scheduling of staff. There’s edits I would’ve done to that, but that was pretty amazing.

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