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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

In 2016, Google developed an eye-scanning technique for looking at retinal images and detecting diabetic retinopathy as well as a trained ophthalmologist. The disease is quite common among diabetes patients, and if it is not spotted early enough, it may cause blindness. Google is not the only one working on A.I.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. ” So instead of reading a book, we’ll just read it on an iPad. I actually like reading books and the physical,” and what the internet 2.0 This is Eric Widera. Sei: I wonder if there’s a analogy between the internet 1.0

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

So pretty soon, I hope, we’ll be able to do this all electronically by anyone who wants to. Or electronically, to fill out, right? A surgeon who is seeing a patient and detects diabetes out of control is not going to say, “Damn the diabetes, get them to the OR now.” PGA is Practical Geriatric Assessment.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Her most recent book is Elderhood. Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. He made it very clear that he called me by looking my number up in the phone book. He was a terrible diabetic. And in fact, after a complicated ethics issue, we will oftentimes go in and try and debrief them. Louise, welcome back to GeriPal.