The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

The California-based firm, Second Sight , the German company, Retina Implant AG, and the French venture, Pixium Vision were the forerunners of the field, developing implantable visual prosthetics to restore vision to patients who are blind as a result of the rare condition of retinitis pigmentosa.

Diabetes 98

Diabetes Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. Our last podcast was with Laura Petrillo in 2018 – 5 years ago seems ancient history – though many of the points still apply today (e.g. Goldilocks zone).

Diabetes 74

Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Families 74

GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. If you believe the evidence for efficacy to manage symptoms like neuropathic pain, how do you even start to think about recommending these products to patients? And then one patient who really knew more about a topic than I did, which unfortunately happens much more often.

Medical 100

Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 100

GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

It’s easier to concentrate on cure, diagnosis, cure. And then there are a number of groups that go out in vans and cars and go out into the surrounding community of Kerala to provide care for patients who are in their homes. And I’ll share that my own relationship with my father, who was a doctor, was a complicated one.

Community 116

Community IT Relationship Healthcare 116

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Only 5% of intervention patients received the facilitator-led component of the intervention (there were other components, facilitator-led was the most engaged component). I’m hearing dementia patients or patients with dementia. Eric 09:15 And then who were the patients just with dementia or were they. Is that right?

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 80

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? And maybe we should have more patient-centered conversations. We see them struggle, right? We see how hard it is.

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

In order to heal her patients she first had to heal her ailing profession. And this is a medical system that needs to be disrupted because our medical system (as you know) is endangering the lives of patients right now—and physicians. Isn’t it weird that now we’re labeling the majority of doctors with burnout in 2018?

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Clinic Nurse Practitioner IT Medical 246