The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

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. How far can you see and hear? When it comes to vision, it’s around 50 miles, talking about hearing, it’s only 1-2 miles at best! How about touching or tasting?

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

I’m just stunned even writing that! We’ve come so far as a field. This isn’t to say we’ve “made it” – more to say that we’ve reached a new stage of maturation of the field – in which the evidence we are discussing is frequently high quality randomized trial level data. -@AlexSmithMD Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. I think back in what, May 2016, you published a randomized controlled trial, first author, palliative care and the ED randomized study, cancer patients. They got feedback.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Eric: Alex, we have a super special today. We’ve got a hospice super special. Alex: We have a hospice super special day. Eric: We have a smorgasbord, if you will, of papers that got published recently around hospice, and that’s why we’re calling it a hospice super special. -@AlexSmithMD. Transcript.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Then in the OpenNotes work that I do, I was hired to take something complicated like transparency and patients having access to their full records in medicine, and then making that something that the lay public understood. But before we go into that topic, I think, Liz, you got a song request for Alex. Liz: That’s right. Lovely song.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. MOC Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.75 ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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