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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. Running trials in animals will take additional engineering and safety tests. Here, I outlined the way technology delineates the future of eye care and vision.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? And I came to the now I think naive conclusion that fixing and avoiding complications was the secret. Fifty percent have a diagnosis in their record of decedents have dementia. Joel: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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

GeriPal

We learned this and much more, and I had a great time making engine noises singing the Woody Guthrie song “driving in my car.” . 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.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

Now actually suggesting perhaps that you missed a diagnosis that you should have considered? Because the in serious illness care and care for older adults, their care is often very complex. And there are these issues around, well when is the machine just summarizing what happened versus actually doing some interpretation? Eric: Yeah.

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