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A new wave of artificial intelligence (AI) technology has prompted questions about how it may change clinical practice and health care delivery in the future. In particular, with news that ChatGPT, an AI large language model developed by OpenAI, passed the first two steps of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) as well as the American Heart Association Basic Life Support and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support exams, what is the role of AI in the health care context and will it overtake the role of physicians?[1,2]

The Harvard Study of Adult Development began in 1938 and is still going strong today. The study set out to understand human health by investigating not what made people sick, but what made them thrive. Starting with 724 participants, it has expanded to now include three generations and more than 1300 descendants. 

Dr Linda Hawker’s recent blog post: “Changes in family medicine—baby boomers look back” gives an insightful and quasi-tearful overview of 45 years’ worth of changes that have emerged in medicine since she graduated from the University of Alberta Medical School in 1977.

I am 94 years old and, 2 years after the end of a 70-year-long relationship, I live alone. Although I am alone, I am not lonely. I have many friends, appreciated former colleagues, and kind acquaintances. I am in touch by phone or email with both close and distant family members. I even have the privilege of closely witnessing the miraculous growth of a new little human almost from the day of his birth, the child and grandchild of wonderful parents and grandparents. I consider myself most fortunate with these riches of social contacts and relationships.

The Help BC Hear Better Group is a passionate team of health care professionals, researchers, and people with hearing loss who want improved access to hearing health care in British Columbia.

The goal of Help BC Hear Better is to improve access to hearing health care, including funding support for hearing aids, especially for vulnerable populations most adversely affected by hearing loss: children and seniors.