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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

It was launched in 2014 as an iOS app , available in 6 languages, and among others, it offers an on-the-go skincare assessment tool as first-step guidance on skincare concerns. It can diagnose six types of common skin conditions – pimples, acne, scars, dark spots, pigmentation, and dark circles.

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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

I don’t practice clinically in outpatient settings, and often the folks I’m seeing are there for other kinds of issues. Eric: But before we jump into talking to your patients about driving retirement cessation, let’s talk about what is the role of the healthcare professional in this at all? Is this our role?

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

And yet, we know little about the clinical experience of people with dementia in hospice. Eric: Whenever I hear about for-profit, non-for-profit, the differences between them, mostly everybody turns to, I think, your 2014 paper looking at the differences between for-profit and non-for-profit. What motivated you? Lauren: Yeah.

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

GeriPal

But you could have clustering within clinics, within clinicians who care for a panel of patients, that sort of thing. Kate: No, it’s a tough answer in part because, as Scott mentioned, this was being implemented somewhere in the 2014/15 range after funding and building and that pilot year. laughter] Eric: Enough said.