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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

billion people were living with vision loss in 2020, and it is forecasted to reach 1.7 It greatly helps physicians in remote areas such as Sub-Saharan Africa diagnose and treat patients. Originally, the companies promised to put the digital contact lens on the market around 2020. Globally 1.1 Yet, it might be a reality soon.

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Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

September 8, 2020. Published online May 11, 2020. Published online July 29, 2020. Published online July 29, 2020. Establishing a Task Force to Reassess the Inclusion of Race in Diagnosing Kidney Diseases. Published July 2, 2020. Institute for Healing & Justice in Medicine ; 2020. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001232.

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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

GeriPal

A 2020 RCT of coaching for primary care physicians shows that coaching improves burnout well-being during the intervention and has a sustained duration at 6 months of follow up. For me, I personally prefer folks that have walked in my shoes, or are specialized in, for example, academic life or something like that. Greg: Yeah. .”

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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

Ellen had been diagnosed with vascular dementia, peripheral vascular disease, and Type 2 diabetes. The number of nurse practitioners specializing in geriatrics has more than tripled since 2010, increasing the availability of care to the current population of seniors, a recent study in JAMA Network Open found.

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Poetry & Palliative Care: Podcast with Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar

GeriPal

Redwing: When you’re diagnosed with cancer, the first thing you think about is when you’re going to die. I had planned to start doing in-person poetry sessions with cancer patients at the beginning of 2020. Redwing: I did the first week of March in 2020, and then as we all know, the world shut down and changed.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Fantastic.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. That started in November of 2020. Go back in your mind, November of 2020, COVID is at its peak, we don’t have vaccines quite yet. Annals of Int Med. It really doesn’t matter all that much. That is beautiful.

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