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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

Searchable by symptoms, signs, and patient factors, it represents the fastest path to a customised differential diagnosis. If you’d like to support this mission, we invite you to join The Medical Futurist Patreon Community. VisualDx is an excellent source for diagnostic clinical decision support.

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

GeriPal

What does this diagnosis mean to you? And so I’ve had an opportunity to participate that at our Livestrong cancer clinic here at Dell Medical School. The other thing … And I really appreciate that you brought up our residents and our medical students. You begin with psychosocial assessment and care.

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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. They have poor pain, they have poor function, but you also can’t clearly make a diagnosis.

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Miscommunication in Medicine: A podcast with Shunichi Nakagawa, Abby Rosenberg and Don Sullivan

GeriPal

And Gretchen does this really great thing is, if you actually focus, let’s say, on surgery, there’s really only four things surgery helps with, live longer, feel better, prevent disability, or make a diagnosis, only those four things. Thoughts on that? I’m still going to hope that I’m going to win it. Shunichi: No.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. It’s easier to concentrate on cure, diagnosis, cure. Rajagopal appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Was it that thunderclap moment?

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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. So we did a perfect cross so that the race and actual primary diagnosis was perfectly matched across groups. Amber: Norm is, yeah.