The Medical Futurist

JUNE 17, 2025

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. Dentistry even outpaced other fields of medicine in adopting this method.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

There were a number of opportunities to be involved in medical oncology and doing medical oncology rotations as a medical student, as an internal medicine residential. And I was particularly drawn to the cancer patient population and really thinking about that integration into standard care. There really was very little.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

When I spoke to physicians who had been practicing back then, it seemed that the sort of modern cohort of medical students and residents and young physicians were facing a different set of challenges, a unique set of challeng challenges. After learning about his pain, I asked how he spent his days. His face immediately lit up.

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GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

So when we think about independence, being able to get to the place that we want to be, we’re reliant on things like transportation, whether it be cars or trucks or trains, and how society is built around that. Whether again, be transportation, food delivery, things like that.

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