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9 Technologies That Will Shape The Future Of Dentistry

The Medical Futurist

By slipping such a headset on their head, students and aspiring dental surgeons can be transported to the OR from their couch ; while patients can visualise a calming landscape while seated at the dreaded dentist’s chair to improve their experience. Dentistry even outpaced other fields of medicine in adopting this method.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

And as of 2015, the survey started to ask folks about cancer history, just some broad questions about lifetime history of cancer and whether they’ve had a cancer diagnosis in the past year. They had to have certain amount of urine drug tests in a year, and they had to wait in line. Katie: Yep.

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

GeriPal

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. I think the big one for me, it was in 2015. 2015, 2016. So what that means is I take care of you just in my clinic, just in my hospital. Malaz: Yeah.