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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

It can diagnose six types of common skin conditions – pimples, acne, scars, dark spots, pigmentation, and dark circles. Beyond validating diagnoses, VisualDx is used to access the next steps for disease management, and for patient education. Click here to support The Medical Futurist from as little as $3 – it only takes a minute.

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Doctors for America Calls for Transparency in COVID-19 Vaccine Regulation

Doctors for America

Moreover, these restrictions assume that preexisting diagnoses perfectly predict a patients’ risk of severe COVID-19 disease, ignoring several years of scientific evidence to the contrary. DFA is an organization of over 27,000 physician and medical student advocates in all 50 states, representing all areas of specialization.

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

GeriPal

We need to figure out how to create this community of palliative care social work scholars. It creates that community where you’re like, “Oh, I’m not alone. And I’ve got a whole community of people to support me.” And then my mom was diagnosed with lung cancer and she was treated there.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

I think the first time I noticed it was, like as a medical student when you would rotate on one service with one attending and they would make decisions about how to treat a case one way. So we got community members who said that if their loved one were ever to get sick, they would be the one who would be the decision maker.

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Images of the Dying: A Podcast with Wendy MacNaughton, Lingsheng Li, and Frank Ostaseski

GeriPal

What is it about the images of the dying that helps teach medical students? They had triple diagnoses, often life threatening illness, but also mental illness and usually some kind of addiction. And I just want to give a shout out to wendy’s grown ups table community. I wonder why you did that.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

It’s now so common that more than half of all doctors report symptoms, with medical students , residents , and even senior clinicians feeling pushed to the brink. Wible held town hall meetings and she invited citizens in her community to design their own ideal clinic. They blame the medical student.

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