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How Locum Tenens Fits Into Modern Healthcare Staffing Solutions

Barton Associates

In fact, hospitals, clinics, and other facilities are already reeling from a shortage of providers and it’s hurting patients— according to the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , tens of millions of Americans live in areas with shortages of primary care, dental, and mental health professionals.

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The Healthcare Vision of ChatGPT-4o and Multimodal LLMs

The Medical Futurist

Although this revolution has been brewing for years, the past few months marked a major change , as algorithms finally moved out of the specialized labs and into our daily lives. Current medical AIs only process one type of data, for example, text or X-ray images. However, medicine, by nature, is multimodal as are humans.

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

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary Its another deprescribing super special on today’s GeriPal Podcast, where we delve into the latest research on deprescribing medications prescribed to older adults. Join us as we dive deeper into these studies and discuss the implications for clinical practice and patient care. Here we go.

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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

GeriPal

It depends on the clinical situation. The chart that I have in my book and that I use in practice and so many healthcare systems have adopted already, is the very best, cutting edge data we have. But we still, regardless of how you do this calculation have to temper it with clinical judgment. Eric: All right. Thoughts on that.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

And when I think about some of the … There was actually a meta-analysis looking at specialized palliative care studies, only half of the 10 randomized control studies had a social worker as part of that team. Jennifer Temel study did not have a social worker as part of the clinical team. So … Barbara: Yeah.

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

GeriPal

We got some really special guests with us. This is both a research and a clinical interest of yours. Zachary: I mean, I did my med school and residency training in Louisville, Kentucky, and I had a second year med student lecture from Joe Rotella who was, I think the chief medical officer at Hospices at the time.

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Avoiding the Uncanny Valley in Serious Illness Communication: Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

And I think also some of the stuff we’ll be talking about, when it comes to communication, I mean, a lot of the clinical encounter is listening to the music. Tell me about the clinical enc… How do you think the uncanny valley fits into medicine and communication training and skills? What is the uncanny valley? Eric: Yeah.

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