The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Treating less serious ailments gets faster, more targeted and more efficient, while the means for curing more serious and life-altering illnesses improve. Digital contact lenses sound like science fiction: the translucent layer on your eye transmitting special information about your body to an outside device. and specificity of 95.4%.

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Diabetes Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

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. Provider level factors such as newly autonomous trainees, advanced practice professionals, and clinicians with infrequent exposure to pediatric respiratory illnesses may lead to overreliance on tests.

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Asthma Electronics Utilities Clinical Practice 52

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

GeriPal post on “fast food” style palliative care in chronic critical illness. Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. Additional links: Editorial on Areej’s study. Palliative care in lung and GI cancers. Transcript.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Not the most common circumstances that people with serious illness face where attention and understanding of what my goals and values are. Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. Why are all these companies after me trying to get my money and get me an electronic wheelchair?

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as: Who should get specialized palliative care? We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. By diagnosis? By prognosis? It’s what I know.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis Referral 99

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. So my special guest host on this episode is a trainee in pediatrics and medical genetics. But again, metabolic GI illness, interrupt other interruptions in feeding schedule, intense exercise.

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Consulting Individual Families Family 59

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Arguing for the state of Missouri against the Cruzan’s was Ken Starr, who would later be assigned the role of special prosecutor in the investigation of the Clintons (Whitewater, Lewensky, etc). They were seriously ill and had a chance to get to know. He was the special prosecutor. What words to use? Is the POLST useful?

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 112