The Medical Futurist

JUNE 17, 2025

For dentists, it’s transforming diagnosis, decision-making, and treatment planning. By slipping such a headset on their head, students and aspiring dental surgeons can be transported to the OR from their couch ; while patients can visualise a calming landscape while seated at the dreaded dentist’s chair to improve their experience.

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PEMBlog

MAY 17, 2023

Most children who present to Pediatric Emergency Departments these days with mental health concerns – including agitation – have a known psychiatric problem or diagnosis. Special thanks to Manpreet Singh, MD ( @MprizzleER ) for helping to put this collaboration together.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

The test is intended for use as an aid in the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infections (COVID-19) in symptomatic individuals when tested at least twice over three days with at least 48 hours between tests. The device is simple to use and does not involve sample manipulation, transportation of the sample to another functional area (e.g.,

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Special thanks to Todd Florin, MD, MSCE who contributed to this post – he is also an expert on respiratory and infectious emergencies. Research suggests most CXRs are performed because ED clinicians (and many parents) are concerned for the possibility of missing pneumonia or another diagnosis requiring specific management.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

My special guest podcaster, Emily Groopman, is an actual Pediatric Geneticist in training and we hope that you will find this episode useful. Inborn errors of metabolism in infancy: a guide to diagnosis. So my special guest host on this episode is a trainee in pediatrics and medical genetics. Pediatr Rev. doi: 10.1542/pir.2014-0122.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. So I would agree, just in terms of not trying to dismiss a lot of these patients in terms of deconditioning and really trying to sometimes hone in on the diagnosis despite a Bnp level that is not necessarily very high.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. He created fee for service, special fee for depression. And we defined that as earlier detection and timely detection diagnosis to evaluation, care planning delivery, all the way to end of life. And I talked with Jürgen. Eric: Okay.

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