The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Large language models will soon find their way in to everyday clinical settings , simply because the global shortage of healthcare personnel is becoming dire and AI will lend a hand with tasks that do not require skilled medical professionals. However, medicine, by nature, is multimodal as are humans.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

In our third segment, we explore Amy Linskys study that examined the effect of patient-directed educational materials on clinician deprescribing of potentially low-benefit or high-risk medications, such as proton pump inhibitors, high-dose gabapentin, or risky diabetes medications. And I think of the analogy of, like, cancer screening.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Their success is understandable : they offer a fast and easy method to check any skin conditions, typically for a fraction of the cost of a traditional healthcare appointment. VisualDx is an excellent source for diagnostic clinical decision support. That’s what smartphone apps developed for physicians aim to go against.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Keri Brenner, who is also a psychiatrist and palliative care doctor and clinical associate professor at Stanford. I’m really excited about this because clinically this happened to me, somebody was very angry at something we were talking about.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Then, it was like, well, it does as well as, and now, better than humans passing the medical boards, passing the law boards, doing great on the SAT, all that stuff. And you say, “Okay, that’s fine, but can it really … What about a real live clinical situation?” That is the first clinical use case.

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