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Why are So Many Teens and 20-Somethings Today Anxiety-Ridden?

Doctor Rachel

Loss of community connection and support In my book BodyWise , I write about the challenging mismatch between our physiology — which was designed for humans living thousands of years ago — and our culture and environment. Reducing screen time, as best you can, at all ages of development, is key to reducing anxiety.

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

The 80-year-old Ray Flynn lost his central vision entirely, but with the help of the retinal implant, he could make out shapes on the computer screen. It greatly helps physicians in remote areas such as Sub-Saharan Africa diagnose and treat patients. Google is not the only one working on A.I. solutions for eye care, though.

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Is DCIS Cancer or Not?

AMMD

Now, roughly 9% of breast cancer diagnoses are in women under age 45 with this percentage continually rising(1). I also did a screening blood test to look for circulating tumor cells, which I will have an article on this soon! Conventional Detection and Diagnosis Conventional medicine diagnoses about 90% of DCIS during mammograms.

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

We then walk through how we should screen for anxiety and how we should think about a differential. If you look in the diagnostical statistical manual, right, the sort of handbook for diagnoses, most of the diagnostic criteria are in some important ways kind of arbitrary, right? And how do you think about it as a psychiatrist?

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

And so I began to think about the training that I had and that there was no mental health condition that was diagnosed. Because our division of geriatrics has such expertise in secondary data analysis and how their retirement studies, can set me off on this task to go read the code books in HRS. Ashwin Kotwal: Oh, wow.

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

GeriPal

So take a listen and if you are interested in learning more, check out these wonderful links: Harvey’s latest book is called, Dignity in Care: The Human Side of Medicine Intensive Caring: Reminding Patients They Matter Michael J. And who’s a latest book is Dignity and Care: The Human Side of Medicine. Harvey: I feel welcome.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

So in truth, I called it a b r because the Book On B t, you ever read that, Bob? Eric: Yeah, great book. The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. Bob: No, but I know about it.

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