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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

In 2013, only 56 percent of Americans owned a smartphone, which climbed to around 90% by now. It can diagnose six types of common skin conditions – pimples, acne, scars, dark spots, pigmentation, and dark circles. Beyond validating diagnoses, VisualDx is used to access the next steps for disease management, and for patient education.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

This is like, back in 2013, and I joined the faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. So when I joined Sinai In 2013, I was in a different form at that time. And so I think that my growth and discovery of celebrating who I am as a woman of trans experience didn’t really happen until when I came to New York City.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

Barbara: Oh, I think it was 2013. Now, my SWHPN friends will get mad at me if I got that wrong, but I think it was 2013. And then my mom was diagnosed with lung cancer and she was treated there. Founding board member of SWHPN? Is that right? Barbara: Yes. Pretty proud of that one. Eric: How long ago was that? It’s good.

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What is Death? Winston Chiong and Sean Aas

GeriPal

Like, if we think about the fact that hospitals around the country, around the world, you know, people are, you know, coming in, they’re being diagnosed as dead on the basis of neurologic criteria, and that we. Winston 33:31 2013. You know, we have cases like the McMath case, but again, you know, those. The post What is Death?

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Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Eric Widera reminds us of the history of the Goldwater Act created by the American Psychological Association in the 1960s which states that psychiatrists should refrain from diagnosing public figures, and the American Medical Association code of ethics which likewise discourages armchair diagnosis (rule established in 2017). Sorry, Ken.

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