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The Healthcare Vision of ChatGPT-4o and Multimodal LLMs

The Medical Futurist

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. M-LLM (Translating for Specialist): “The patient is pointing to the lower abdomen.”

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Episode 309 – Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 23 – Anti-Blackness, Anti-Fatness, and Food Shaming

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Identify ways to navigate clinical interactions with patients while respecting them and affirming their experiences with food and fatness. All of this contributes to various mental health challenges that are consistent with surveillance in not only a wider police-state but also the patient-physician relationship.

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Key Bills in the 2025 Legislative Session AAFP is Watching Closely

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

Senate SB 43 – Patient Price Transparency Bill What’s in the Bill: Sponsored by Sen. While minors could still consent to care for pregnancy, STIs, and substance abuse, parental consent would be required for other medical care, mental health counseling (including school counseling), vaccinations, and bone marrow donation.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

So it’s just every single part of our life is affected and mental health issues. And that’s a good thing to share with an older patient or client that making decisions about your activity. I mean, many people in their mid to older years are on certain medications. And then access to those. So we could go on.