The Medical Futurist

JUNE 17, 2025

How about having a teledentist consultation? For dentists, it’s transforming diagnosis, decision-making, and treatment planning. In comparison, the first VR-recorded surgery was performed at the Royal London Hospital in 2016. Or being able to grow new teeth at the age of 80?

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. What’s the Diagnosis? Pulmonology and surgery were consulted during his hospital stay, and he has since had a left lower lobectomy after healing from his pneumonia. Aspirated foreign body B.

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Diagnosis Diagnose Patients Asthma 52

PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

She is a member of the Clinical Genome Resource Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) Clinical Domain Working Group, where as a biocurator she assesses the pathogenicity of variants in IEM-associated genes to facilitate expedited genetic diagnosis for IEMs. 2016 Jan;37(1):3-15; quiz 16-7, 47. Available from: [link] Rice GM, Steiner RD.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Joel: The Brigham and Women’s Hospital likes me to say that too. Alex: And the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. And she was rushed to the hospital. And they agreed on that and they talked to the people at the hospital, the surgeons and the nurses. They stayed in the hospital for longer. Joel: Oh yeah.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

The number of people who have used MAID in Canada since it was legalized in 2016 has increased year on year from about 1,000 people in the first year to over 13,000 people in 2022. Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. Four percent. So they have to self-administer. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

So I have thought about this for months, maybe years since your 2016, cycle blog, but we have picked Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. They have poor pain, they have poor function, but you also can’t clearly make a diagnosis. And sometimes you can make a use disorder of diagnosis in hindsight. So here we go.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 102

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To describe individual characteristics and healthcare use in older adults with SMI across home care services (HCS) profiles before and after the first dementia diagnosis. Dataset: Health administrative data from 380,124 Quebecers between 1996 and 2016. Group 3 had the lowest proportions of hospitalizations and ED visits.

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