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The Healthcare Vision of ChatGPT-4o and Multimodal LLMs

The Medical Futurist

Large language models will soon find their way in to everyday clinical settings , simply because the global shortage of healthcare personnel is becoming dire and AI will lend a hand with tasks that do not require skilled medical professionals. Current medical AIs only process one type of data, for example, text or X-ray images.

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Leveraging U=U Interventions for Black Women With HIV

Physician's Weekly

The Southern US accounts for more than half of all new HIV diagnoses, and in Georgia, where I practice, new HIV diagnosis rates in 2022 were seven times higher among Black women than White women and two times higher than among White men. What are some strategies for integrating mental health support?

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

Eric: So you could probably tell we’re going to be talking about mental health issues. In particular, mental health integration and issues in pain and in palliative care. Is it that they’re clinically depressed or that they’re understandably sad at the situation that they’re in or specific issues?

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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

GeriPal

And then I met a patient in clinic once who asked me a lot of really intelligent questions about medical cannabis, what it does. I’d been a nurse at the time, and I went back to do my clinicals in an oncology clinic locally. And I decided at that point to hang a shingle and start a clinic with a physician.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

This is both a research and a clinical interest of yours. But that just didn’t really resonate with what I saw clinically which was that there was lots of suffering both in the patient, their family and on the clinical team and just felt it was really this space where I didn’t have a lot of evidence to guide me.

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Palliative Care for Mental Illness: A Podcast with Dani Chammas and Brent Kious

GeriPal

We invited Dani Chammas , a palliative care physician and psychiatrist at UCSF (and a frequent guest to the GeriPal podcast), as well as Brent Kious , a psychiatrist at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute, focusing on the management of severe persistent mental illnesses. Eric 00:51 And Alex, who do we have with us today?

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