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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

I talked about lack of prestige and respect, and I talked about how healthcare system leaders and medical school deans don’t always seem to value the field of geriatrics. So the data relating to the number of geriatricians in this country, salaries in comparison to hospitalists or primary care physicians.

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

GeriPal

When I spoke to physicians who had been practicing back then, it seemed that the sort of modern cohort of medical students and residents and young physicians were facing a different set of challenges, a unique set of challeng challenges. There’s obviously a lot of flaws in the healthcare system.

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

GeriPal

Skepticism on the ability of predictive models to transform healthcare Consolidation of EHR’s into the hands of a very few companies, and potential for the drug and device industry to influence care delivery by tweaking AI in ways that are not transparent and already a sort of magical black box. Bob: Exactly. It could be anybody.