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. Harbisson received a specialised electronic eye, his “eyeborg” to be able to render perceived colours as sounds on the musical scale. That must have been truly amazing!

Diabetes 105

Diabetes Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

This thread from a 2015 post illustrates how varying needs of a child with ulcerative colitis call for different ways to connect: Take Luke, a school-aged child with moderate ulcerative colitis complicated by sclerosing cholangitis. It’s everything written here about electronic health records. Happy reading.

Patients 75

Patients IT Provider Family Doctor 75

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? And I came to the now I think naive conclusion that fixing and avoiding complications was the secret. They were more likely to have a major inpatient surgical complication. She falls and breaks her hip.

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101