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Episode 125: Human Dx Unknown with Sharmin and & medical students, Vivek and Joshua – Diarrhea

The Clinical Problem Solvers

He spent his third year doing an MA in design that cemented his passion for using creativity and innovation to better deliver care and information to patients and providers. Vivek Nair Vivek Nair is a second-year medical student at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.

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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. ” Patient points to lower abdomen.

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Didn’t Match into Residency.What are Some of my Options?

Aspiring Minority Doctor

If you’re a 4th year medical student who is unmatched at this point, my advice is the following: Focus on securing a one year preliminary or transitional year position! It would also be possible to go into concierge medicine and focus on VIP patients. This would require relocating and I am not aware of how much it pays.

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2021 Physician Holiday Gift Guide

Aspiring Minority Doctor

This year, I started using the CariPro electronic toothbrush and my mouth definitely feels cleaner. I bought a few of these socks (and was also gifted some by my little brother) when I was a medical student, and to this day I still wear the same socks with great compression. I use black in 0.7

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Clinicians “catching” patient life stories. . Our patients aren’t “the 76 year old with heart failure in room 202,” as Heather Coats astutely noted. Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Discover The Person Within The Patient. Integration of Person-Centered Narratives Into the Electronic Health Record: Study Protocol.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Along the way we address: Is this degree of slowed cognitive decline meaningful to patients or care partners? Eric: So patient narrative storytelling, independent of what we call it, I’d like to turn to both of you and just how you got interested in this as a subject. She was a heart failure patient.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. The patient case. I think the theme is more saving someone’s life and the regret that follows.