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From Surgeries To Keeping Company: The Place Of Robots In Healthcare

The Medical Futurist

Assisting surgeries, disinfecting rooms, dispensing medication, keeping company: believe it or not these are the tasks medical robots will soon undertake in hospitals, pharmacies, or your nearest doctor’s office. For this reason, we collected here the most useful robots in healthcare. But there is undoubtedly impressive progress.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

And this complete lack of attention to the real needs of persons with dementia is really kind of a shameful part of US healthcare. I believe the age range was over 80 hospitalized patients and showed that relatively light level physical activity, often with weights, improved hospital outcomes. And very frail. Alex 29:26 Exactly.

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