Ken Covinsky
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1,532 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2016
last heard Sep 2025
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would make you perceive
it's the drug of the year i'll remind you nancy that this is an honor for companies that manage to make lots of money despite having a product that's worthless or doesn't you know and that doesn't do anything good so this is like you know this is an ultimate achievement i mean think about the
work
Yeah, we just decide which drug annoys us the most, really.
I can't wait to see this shit.
Oh, I have no thoughts.
Well, no, I'll give a serious answer because it actually is an important question.
My personal belief is that for these two existing drugs, the efficacy is very small and the side effects are substantial.
there's almost no circumstances where if it was somebody close to me that I would recommend it to them.
And I see a path where a reasonable person might differ.
So therefore, I feel that I am obligated to tell patients about this option.
And I'll add one point that we've actually made repeatedly in this session over the years about how we prioritize healthcare and the needs of older persons.
this is not something that might affect the individual clinician-patient decision.
But as a policy, we do such a horrible care of meeting the needs of patients with dementia and their caregivers.
And we have interventions and patient management interventions and caregiver management interventions that are so much less expensive and been proven
effective and we don't support them.
And this complete lack of attention to the real needs of persons with dementia is really kind of a shameful part of U.S.
healthcare.
And I think a point that you made, Eric, you know, on a article on hearing aids is probably providing persons with MCI with a hearing aid and the time and effort it takes to teach them how to use it effectively will do much more to improve cognitive function than any of these
Yeah, no, the Capable Study, that actually was a presage of, that was one of my two choices for my favorite article.
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