The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Treating less serious ailments gets faster, more targeted and more efficient, while the means for curing more serious and life-altering illnesses improve. Harbisson received a specialised electronic eye, his “eyeborg” to be able to render perceived colours as sounds on the musical scale. and a specificity of 95.5%.

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Diabetes Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

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 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

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. Participants were critically ill and intubated. P AI R stands for Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center. What is sludge?

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

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. ” So some of it is education around driving habits and ways of getting places also. I’m going to first turn to Emmy.

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Family Families IT Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Patients 77

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. Alex: Recently you talked about the other trial, also with a nudge, and that was non-cancer, serious illness. It’s complicated because right now there’s no mechanism other than cost avoidance.

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

You know, she would have had 90 really good years, and she would have just gone into a coma with no blood pressure and died, you know, with, like, a day and a half of illness. Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. And in fact, after a complicated ethics issue, we will oftentimes go in and try and debrief them.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98