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. Digital contact lenses sound like science fiction: the translucent layer on your eye transmitting special information about your body to an outside device.

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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

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. Why do so many (most, all??)

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

The idea is, if it works at MGH, that’s a special kind of a place, maybe they do palliative care differently, maybe they have better resources, would this work at other transplant centers that have different kinds of clinicians or that serve different kinds of patients; so we wanted to have diversity of sites and clinicians and patients.

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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. It feels special to me. As I was cleaning up my office, I found something I’d written in 2016.

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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. 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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