Decision Aids: Tools to Support Conversation About Choice.

Decision aids with Dr. Daniel Matlock. Complexity of decisions, agency of decision-makers, timing, the black box, answering questions as they arise.

Proem

Welcome to another installment in my series on medical decision-making. I doubt this series will ever end. How can it? Our experiments of one or societal experiments of medical action or inaction never cease. I met our guest, Dr. Daniel Matlock, at a conference recently. Dr. Matlock is the Director of the Colorado Program for Patient-Centered Decisions at ACCORDS (The Adult and Child Consortium for Outcomes Research and Delivery Science) and the interim Director of the Division of Geriatrics at the University of Colorado. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, and Palliative care. His research aims to fundamentally change and improve how patients decide about invasive cardiovascular technologies.

The fragility of life strengthens

Health Hats: Dan. Welcome. Thank you. It’s very nice of you to join us today. I wanted to just start with getting to know you. Can you think back about the first time you were aware that health was fragile? What was happening at that time in your life?