The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

To diagnose and treat a patient, a healthcare professional listens to the patient, reads their health files, looks at medical images and interprets laboratory results. These systems will considerably reduce the workload of – but not replace- human healthcare professionals.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation. Eric: But before we jump into talking to your patients about driving retirement cessation, let’s talk about what is the role of the healthcare professional in this at all? Alex: Yeah. Is this our role? Emmy: Yeah.

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. Jessie: Yes. Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Which brings us to an article.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

And I remember being there and there was a patient who had seen inpatient and then subsequently outpatient who was so thankful in the weirdest in just this irrational way for having been diagnosed with liver cancer. I often need a prior off but I have been surprised that the insurance hasn’t been the barrier that I thought it would be.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

It sets space between us and the individuals we’re trying to take care of. I think that consistency of what is the expectation of our roles is crucial in a lot of ways, but that role is determined by the individuals we’re serving. I think the market and others will determine those individuals and who they work with.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

For those individuals, how do you think about that? So let’s say a patient who has lung cancer, relatively newly diagnosed, has a long history of substance use disorder, had been taking methadone as an outpatient, and now has this pain. Sach 17:32 For me, it’s our first line opioid. You know the case.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 8, 2024

And this seems very basic, but try it with your insurance agent or your pastor, you know, or your banker at 03:00 in the morning. So writing a eulogy or seeing that individual, we had an open casket, which was both very hard, but also, I would say, somewhat cathartic to actually do these rituals and participate in these rituals.

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