The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Current medical AIs only process one type of data, for example, text or X-ray images. To diagnose and treat a patient, a healthcare professional listens to the patient, reads their health files, looks at medical images and interprets laboratory results. 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. So we’re still trying to figure that out.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

It’ll come out in these deviant behaviors, just like you mentioned earlier, where maybe we stave off seeing that patient, send the medical student instead or delay that visit till the end of the day. And I was aware in the room that at the appointment when he was mad at the system, I could have sat with that forever.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

I would be surprised if it was as good as you guys, but I think that you can imagine a medical student or an intern doing this before they went into a room to talk to a patient and having it be pretty helpful. ” And one of the students raised his hand. Bob: Yeah, but you can imagine- Alex: I wish, but I worry I will not.

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