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The Healthcare Vision of ChatGPT-4o and Multimodal LLMs

The Medical Futurist

Current medical AIs only process one type of data, for example, text or X-ray images. 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. However, medicine, by nature, is multimodal as are humans.

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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

It can diagnose six types of common skin conditions – pimples, acne, scars, dark spots, pigmentation, and dark circles. Beyond validating diagnoses, VisualDx is used to access the next steps for disease management, and for patient education. Cureskin aims to help alleviate the situation. recommends an eight-week skincare regimen.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

And then my mom was diagnosed with lung cancer and she was treated there. The other thing … And I really appreciate that you brought up our residents and our medical students. I love … I have an opportunity to teach our medical students in an interprofessional team. It’s good. So proud of myself.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

Zachary: I mean, I did my med school and residency training in Louisville, Kentucky, and I had a second year med student lecture from Joe Rotella who was, I think the chief medical officer at Hospices at the time. Zachary: And psychiatry kind of felt the thing that resonated. Janet: It was this young man. He was in his mid twenties.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

I think the first time I noticed it was, like as a medical student when you would rotate on one service with one attending and they would make decisions about how to treat a case one way. Amber Barnato appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Amber: Norm is, yeah.

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Avoiding the Uncanny Valley in Serious Illness Communication: Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

So one end of the spectrum is somebody who’s just a total novice, and it’s clearly very awkward and they’re not used to talking to people in a clinical encounter, like a medical student or something like that. Stop thinking the physical exam or the differential diagnose, whatever, and just be there.

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The Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner

GeriPal

It’ll come out in these deviant behaviors, just like you mentioned earlier, where maybe we stave off seeing that patient, send the medical student instead or delay that visit till the end of the day. What medications are the patient on? And also the whole potential psychiatric diagnoses. We’ll act it out.

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