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Now that there is a highly effective treatment available, how can we assure access to this life saving drug?
These tools rely on software to monitor, treat, or prevent disease. They are still in their early stages but we need more data on their effectiveness.
The consequences of reporting, and not reporting abuse, can be enormous
We need to do better at matching care provided at the end of life to patient’s preferences.
Decreasing problem gambling will require a toolbox of remedies including health care interventions and new policies.
Hospital discharge can be complicated, and too often, patient’s preferences are not considered.
There are many similarities between medicine and aviation, but one change we need to make in medicine is to develop the equivalent of black boxes to improve the quality of care.
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