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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

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Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. But w e’re going to do it a little different today. Thanks for having me.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. So she bled a lot and finally called for help and was transferred to the hospital, where she started crashing in the trauma room. She didn’t die in the hospital.

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

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I would be surprised if it was as good as you guys, but I think that you can imagine a medical student or an intern doing this before they went into a room to talk to a patient and having it be pretty helpful. At the Mayo clinic, for example, they’ve got a very robust hospital at home program. Bob: Yeah. Bob: Be well.