The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Doctors and nurses are supercomputers, medical AI is a calculator A multimodal system can process and interpret multiple types of input data, such as text, images, audio, and video, simultaneously. Current medical AIs only process one type of data, for example, text or X-ray images. This is far beyond what any AI is capable of today.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. And then my mom was diagnosed with lung cancer and she was treated there. It’s good. So proud of myself.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

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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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

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. And so the control room is a contiguous room, but the individual rooms where the patients, the actors and the doctors are separated by a wall.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

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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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

What is it about the images of the dying that helps teach medical students? They had triple diagnoses, often life threatening illness, but also mental illness and usually some kind of addiction. I cracked myself in my head of these individuals. I wonder why you did that. Frank 06:28 Well, I think a number of things.

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