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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

Treating less serious ailments gets faster, more targeted and more efficient, while the means for curing more serious and life-altering illnesses improve. Harbisson received a specialised electronic eye, his “eyeborg” to be able to render perceived colours as sounds on the musical scale. We have to be ready for that!

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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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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

GeriPal

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Participants were critically ill and intubated. P AI R stands for Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center. What is sludge?

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Her most recent book is Elderhood. You know, she would have had 90 really good years, and she would have just gone into a coma with no blood pressure and died, you know, with, like, a day and a half of illness. Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. Eric 00:13 And, Alex, who do we have with us today? We can make this better.