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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

Treating less serious ailments gets faster, more targeted and more efficient, while the means for curing more serious and life-altering illnesses improve. It greatly helps physicians in remote areas such as Sub-Saharan Africa diagnose and treat patients. Here, I outlined the way technology delineates the future of eye care and vision.

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How to Prepare for Your Preventive Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

Unlike appointments that address specific illnesses or injuries, preventive care visits focus on screening for potential health issues, assessing your overall wellness, and helping you establish healthy habits before problems develop. Many practices now offer electronic pre-registration that can be completed before your appointment.

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

GeriPal

GeriPal post on “fast food” style palliative care in chronic critical illness. Areej: So when I was in college, I had a close friend who had a serious illness and actually died as a result of cancer. I entered medical school and I did a course that was offered that’s called living with a life threatening illness.

Illness 111
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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

GeriPal

We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. She’s also a member of the PAIR Center, which stands for Palliative Advanced Illness Research Center. And bringing more palliative care to the living with serious illness instead of dying from serious illness population.

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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. Because the in serious illness care and care for older adults, their care is often very complex.

IT 100
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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. Eric: Well, Terri and Emmy, thank you for joining on this podcast. How did you both get interested in this as a topic? ” Alex: Interesting.

IT 102
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Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

GeriPal

Alex 02:44 Still suffering from some illness from there, which is why I was sick and not in the office with Eric today. But the process of implementing this project across two big health systems in our area was very complicated and had its share of both challenges and rewards. Alex (singing) Alex 02:34 All right, this was a fun one.