The Medical Futurist

JUNE 17, 2025

For dentists, it’s transforming diagnosis, decision-making, and treatment planning. Smart toothbrush While AI helps dental professionals provide better treatments, smart toothbrushes enable all of us to take better care of our teeth. For patients, it promises more accurate care and better outcomes.

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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. Researchers say that the implant cannot provide any highly detailed vision – but it can help patients detect distinct patterns such as door frames and shapes. That must have been truly amazing!

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. Eric: Alex, we have a super special today. We’ve got a hospice super special. Alex: We have a hospice super special day. People with dementia make up about half of hospice admissions.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” 2015, 2016.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

“Typically when we think about conscience in medical ethics we think about it in terms of a negative claim of conscience, where a clinician refuses (or objects) to provide care. Lisa was writing about providing abortion care, but she just as easily could have been writing about providing medical aid in dying in states where it is illegal.

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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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