The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

In 2015, surgeons in Manchester, UK have performed the first bionic eye implant for an AMD patient using Second Sight’s innovation. It greatly helps physicians in remote areas such as Sub-Saharan Africa diagnose and treat patients. She spoke of her joy after being able to tell the time for the first time in more than six years.

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Diabetes Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. And then from a dementia and multiple different diagnoses, how much should hospice look the same for everyone, or tailored to the patient or the diagnosis that we’re dealing with?

Families 107

Families Family IT Patients 107

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying. The MAID issue then came on the table in Canada after the 2015 Supreme Court ruling in Carter v. So figured out a little harmonica- Eric: That was wonderful.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

So we really wondered, you know, in modern palliative care practice, where we’re seeing patients a lot farther upstream than we used to, and we’re seeing patients with a wider range of diagnoses, we wanted to update, sort of. God, it must have been like 2015, 2016. What are the prognoses associated with various PPS scores?

Families 108

Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108

Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

An inspiring leader and educator of the next generation of physicians, Doctor Wible has been named one of the 2015 Women Leaders in Medicine and the “Physicians Guardian Angel.” It’s just a trash can label—not really even a diagnosis, a made-up term that is used as psychological warfare on physicians to control us. To be real.

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Clinic Nurse Practitioner IT Medical 246