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. Running trials in animals will take additional engineering and safety tests. How far can you see and hear? What about the smell of the flowers? How about touching or tasting?

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Diabetes Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Coping in the setting of serious illness. Acceptance. All of these are ways we cope with stressful situations. Some we may consider healthy or unhealthy coping strategies, but are they really that easy to categorize? Here are some more resources we’ve discussed in the podcast Dani’s NEJM article on coping: “ Should I Laugh at That?

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Hallucinations, or when the AI lies or b *s, then denies it When the AI approaches sentience, is it ethical to unplug it? I’m sure this is a subject we will return to, given the rapid progress on AI. But then it asked me, “Oh, that sounds really interesting. Who are you going to be talking to?” ” And I said, “Sure.”

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives. She falls and breaks her hip. Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? It was Remember Me.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

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. There is a dearth of Certified Driving Rehab Specialists: 12 for the entire state of Colorado! Additional Links: (A to Z – under driving).

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IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

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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