There are many roads we can travel with our medications. We can keep adding medications as the number of health problems we develop increases. We can stop taking medications as the side effects of these medications compound, or when our symptoms ameliorate. Once we start on a medication pathway, there are consequences. Despite that, very […]
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a misnomer. There is nothing “artificial” about the origins of a system that purports to perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence, such as problem-solving, decision-making, and language comprehension. After all, AI is only as good as the information it synthesizes, which comes from human sources and the derived algorithms, […]
Caring for patients over long periods of time starts out as a romantic courtship. Initially, there is wooing. Both parties can do no wrong. New patients are relatively unknown to clinicians and vice versa. The main difference is that clinicians are expected to catalyze some change in patients for the better. After taking a history, doing […]
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