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Primary care for all Americans

Common Sense Family Doctor

These days, most adults need to wait several months for a new patient appointment with a family doctor, if they can get one at all. This isn't only because too few medical students are choosing primary care residency programs ; it also reflects generalist physicians leaving practice prematurely due to burnout.

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The Healthcare Vision of ChatGPT-4o and Multimodal LLMs

The Medical Futurist

It’s obvious what a potential removing language barriers holds for medical appointments. An average doctor will then be able to easily work with the radiological AI software, the AI software managing the EMRs, and the fourth, and eighth (etc. ) Just as we’ve seen how live translation works with ChatGPT-4o.

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

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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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

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. Beyond validating diagnoses, VisualDx is used to access the next steps for disease management, and for patient education.

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The Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner

GeriPal

Managing anger is hard, it’s really hard. And yet we don’t ever talk about how to manage it. 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. Eric: Zero.

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