The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

SkinIO , Scanoma , Miiskin , FirstDerm , Direct Derm , iDoc24 , and SkinVision all work based on the same principle: they promise patients the option to self-check their symptoms and then to connect to a dermatologist online for consultation within a very short period of time.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

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. Many were community hospitals. What is sludge? Sludge is apparently when you create barriers or extra work for someone.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And we found out in our work that something like 70 or 80% of patients with dementia who have surgery come from the community, who are coming from home. And that these serious illness conversations ought to involve more palliative care consultations, I think. We put a lot on the surgeon here. Alex: … pre-operative assessment?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

People are also using YouTube specifically, but social media as its own search engine. People are coming from the south, they’re coming from the islands for their surgeries or for their rare disease consultations or their specialty follow ups for really advanced or difficult cases. They’re this influencer.

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