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From Neural Networks to Human Brains: The Next Tech Leap Has Begun

Physicians News Digest

For example, companies like LVIS Corporation are developing hospital-grade technologies that give researchers and clinicians deeper, real-time insights into brain activity, accelerating the path to earlier diagnosis and more effective treatment. Private sector innovation is also pushing the field forward.

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

Treating less serious ailments gets faster, more targeted and more efficient, while the means for curing more serious and life-altering illnesses improve. In 2016, The Guardian reported that a blind woman suffering from this disease was fitted with the implant labelled “bionic eye” in the UK as part of a trial at the Oxford Eye Hospital.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. My great-grandmother in particular had a very profound hearing loss and I don’t know, as a kid, I was obsessed with taking them apart and wanted to do more of the engineering side.

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The Power Of A Nurse

StorytellERdoc

The engine is cut. Whether it be at the doctor's office, the hospital, the medical centers with inpatient and outpatient services, or within our own homes, nurses have been a constant source of unlimited talents and skills, selfless souls who have always had the gift of propelling us forward on our life paths. Lights are turned off.

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Coping with Serious Illness: Danielle Chammas and Amanda Moment

GeriPal

Alex 00:26 And we’re delayed to welcome Amanda Moment, who is a palliative care social worker at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Coping in the setting of serious illness. Coping in the setting of a serious illness about a patient encounter you had with somebody who used an. Amanda, welcome to GeriPal.

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

GeriPal

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Many were community hospitals. Participants were critically ill and intubated. What is sludge? The prognosis nudge did nothing.

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Public Facing Education via Social Media: A Podcast with Julie McFadden, Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow

GeriPal

all of whom focus their efforts on educating the general public about living and dying with a serious illness. I started on YouTube specifically because, Julie probably knows this, but YouTube is actually the second-largest search engine after Google. He was also the one who we have to thank for suggesting this podcast!

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