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When AI Listens In: How Conversational Data Could Disrupt Medicine

Sensible Medicine

The physician later reviews the summary, signs off, sends the suggested orders and maybe follows up with a quick call. Need a physical exam? Some encounters start with the agent and follow up in person: “Let’s start the antibiotic today and have someone take a look Friday.”

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Telehealth Analysis: The Pros & Cons

We Care Online

Telehealth allows these patients to receive timely care without the added burden of physically getting to a clinic or hospital. Improved Patient Engagement and Follow-Up Telehealth can improve patient engagement by making it easier for individuals to follow up with their healthcare providers.

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Inside Pitt Med School: Innovations in Medical Education 

Accepted Blog

The students are broken up into 16 groups. So it’s been moved up a bit. So the basic science portion goes up to the winter break, and then they start the block system which we had before. From the beginning they learn how to take a history, do a physical exam. So, but the cost does end up.

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Friday Reflection 25: The Advice I’d Like to Give a Student Entering Medical School

Sensible Medicine

What reliably follows is a conversation with a smart, earnest, mature, and absurdly accomplished young adult. 1 I want to take physics over the summer to free up time in my schedule. ” I thought I could easily come up with something inspiring. I’ve never said no. Should I do research this summer or get a job?

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Friday Reflection 47: Patients Make the Hardest Decisions

Sensible Medicine

Following a third course of antibiotics, bronchoscopy, and consultation with spine and thoracic surgeons, a lobectomy is recommended. If you write enough of these reflections, you end up constructing a few 2X2 tables. TS is a 60-year-old woman admitted to the hospital with painless jaundice. MRCP revealed a bile-duct stricture.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors. These included: A clinician’s lack of ability to conduct a physical exam (75% of older people concerned about this).

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What to Expect After Medical School

Accepted Blog

The rest is up to you. The drawback of this is having to pick up and move two times. Many institutions offer more preliminary internships than residency spots (cheap labor), so interns who have not been accepted to residency can work hard and hope for acceptance (or at least a good letter of recommendation) the following year.