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9 Technologies That Will Shape The Future Of Dentistry

The Medical Futurist

For dentists, it’s transforming diagnosis, decision-making, and treatment planning. Back in 2015, Nobel Biocare held the first dental surgery filmed through VR and allowed observers to virtually assist the whole procedure from the surgeon’s perspective. For patients, it promises more accurate care and better outcomes.

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

In 2015, surgeons in Manchester, UK have performed the first bionic eye implant for an AMD patient using Second Sight’s innovation. Digital contact lenses sound like science fiction: the translucent layer on your eye transmitting special information about your body to an outside device. That must have been truly amazing!

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

GeriPal

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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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. God, it must have been like 2015, 2016. Eric 25:08 Super special. Eric 47:55 And thank you to all of our listeners for joining us on this prognosis… Alex 48:00 Super special e P rognosis.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. I think the big one for me, it was in 2015. 2015, 2016. He created fee for service, special fee for depression. But it was also later on in the disease. That’s what Malaz is going to talk about. Malaz: Yeah.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

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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Conscientous Provision of MAID and Abortion: Robert Brody, Lori Freedman, Mara Buchbinder

GeriPal

And this was in 2015 when I started to think about this project. There’s nothing special about it. I don’t think it needs a special term particularly. And that got me interested in thinking about other areas of medicine where there’s a real intersection between medicine and the law.