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Churning out of insurance among patients with diabetes served in US Community Health Centers [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Health insurance instability may be particularly challenging for patients with diabetes who need regular chronic care management to reduce the risk of diabetes complications. 46,844 patients were diagnosed with diabetes during study period. 46,844 patients were diagnosed with diabetes during study period.

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

It greatly helps physicians in remote areas such as Sub-Saharan Africa diagnose and treat patients. Harbisson received a specialised electronic eye, his “eyeborg” to be able to render perceived colours as sounds on the musical scale. The venture also offers smartphone-based vision eye tests, e.g. for measuring visual acuity.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

And so certainly from a family’s perspective, a family caregiver perspective, the last thing we want to have when it comes to good dementia care is a diagnose and audio scenario, or in this case, some type of screening result, and then we’ll see you again in six months. It can’t be diagnosed and adios.

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How to Prepare for Your Preventive Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

Identifying health concerns before symptoms appear gives us tremendous advantages in treatment success and minimizing long-term complications. Review your family health history, particularly any new diagnoses among blood relatives since your last appointment. Consider wearing a short-sleeved shirt if blood work will be performed.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. But I think then the other factor in this that makes it complicated is the decision for someone in Manhattan might be very different than the decision for someone in, like, rural Wyoming. Emmy: Yeah.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. And this case has been worked out the best in terms of the artificial intelligence suggesting diagnoses the clinician may have missed. This is Eric Widera. And I think that’s where it gets really interesting from the standpoint of ethics.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

And as a resident, I just was drawn, similar to many oncology clinicians and fellows, to just be traumatic and difficult experience of patients with blood cancers during prolonged and intense hospitalizations, where they experience a lot of physical symptoms, emotional trauma related to the diagnoses. So we’re in the same cancer group.

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