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Clinical Reasoning Corner: Illness Script

The Clinical Problem Solvers

An illness script is a clinical reasoning tool used by clinicians to collect and retrieve clinically relevant information about a particular condition. our own illness scripts) as we reason to a working diagnosis or a final diagnosis. So the illness script we developed as a first-year medical student will evolve over time.

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9 Technologies That Will Shape The Future Of Dentistry

The Medical Futurist

For dentists, it’s transforming diagnosis, decision-making, and treatment planning. With AI tools having access to such information, they can instantly offer the best treatment options and probabilities of success. For patients, it promises more accurate care and better outcomes.

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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

There are widely varying figures, ranging from 66% to 90% depending on the source of information.) As, based on the results of my whole genome sequencing , I have a moderate risk for melanoma, a reliable and easily accessible source of information could be incredibly useful for me, too, thus I tried to find the best tools possible.

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

GeriPal

To me, that feels hard because I guess my inclination is that I want communication to be fixable, and there’s so much medical information and there’s a lot of reasons for families to feel like they’re struggling to understand. What was it, 5%? Eric: 2% of the time. Alex: 2% of the time. Thoughts on that?

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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.

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

GeriPal

Keri: It’s all normal, and it’s all data that can better inform our practice. 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. I wish they were just a diagnosis.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

For the foreseeable future, it’s going to be right 90%, 95%, 85%, so the safety system, of course, will be, the AI says something, makes a recommendation or gives you a draft diagnosis or drafts your note, and then, the failsafe is, the doctor reads it over. I’m connecting. This is GPT-4. “Hi, GPT-4. Bob: Yeah.

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