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The Healthcare Vision of ChatGPT-4o and Multimodal LLMs

The Medical Futurist

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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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

Matthew Enevoldson, PR Manager at SkinVision told The Medical Futurist that technology such as their own is becoming more integrated within the health system, to both ensure that those who need treatment are made aware of it and that those who have an unfounded concern do not take up valuable time and resources.

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

GeriPal

Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine. 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. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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

GeriPal

Managing anger is hard, it’s really hard. And yet we don’t ever talk about how to manage it. 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. Eric: Zero.

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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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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

Something that I’d very little experience of having been a medical student in Pakistan. Eric: And when we think about chronic pain, what do you think, if you had to come up in your research, where we are far as the best evidence for managing chronic pain, what are those therapies? Haider: Yeah.