2016 Complication Electronics Illness 
The Medical Futurist
JUNE 21, 2025
Treating less serious ailments gets faster, more targeted and more efficient, while the means for curing more serious and life-altering illnesses improve. In 2016, The Guardian reported that a blind woman suffering from this disease was fitted with the implant labelled “bionic eye” in the UK as part of a trial at the Oxford Eye Hospital.
GeriPal
JULY 28, 2022
GeriPal post on “fast food” style palliative care in chronic critical illness. Areej: So when I was in college, I had a close friend who had a serious illness and actually died as a result of cancer. I entered medical school and I did a course that was offered that’s called living with a life threatening illness.
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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.
GeriPal
APRIL 10, 2025
I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it.
GeriPal
MARCH 28, 2024
Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. Alex: Recently you talked about the other trial, also with a nudge, and that was non-cancer, serious illness. Eric: And that’s similar to the 2016 JAMA paper, right? Eric: And how did you do that?
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