Operational Failures in Primary Care: AI Solutions?
Clinicians thrive on solving their patients’ health problems The responsibilities...
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Type 1 Diabetes: Can a low carb diet cure it? Does immunisation cause it?
Our online health professionals discussion group includes clinicians who use...
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AI and Large Language Models – Divine or Platonic?
In the journal NEJM AI, Peter Szolovits, a computer scientist...
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In 1954, Henry Beecher, the pioneering American anaesthesiologist, described death...
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Fatty Liver Has a New Name, and a New Drug. Why Should We Care?
If you’ve never heard of NAFLD (Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease),...
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Polygenic Risk Scores for Africa?
Despite the huge excitement that greeted the sequencing of the...
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Does “Patient Satisfaction” Predict Hospital Readmission?
Discovery Health reviewed 8 years of data from private hospital...
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Eagles, beagles and a moose – change comes to cardiology
This week I attended a webinar series hosted by the...
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An Old German Philosopher Rescues AI Users
Advances in artificial intelligence have come at breathtaking speed but...
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Solving the Twelve Language Problem in Healthcare
Over the years, I’ve used Google Translate where I had...
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Should Pleasure be a Patient-Reported Outcome?
We measure pain, why not pleasure? Decades ago, your kindly...
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In 2011 we could have ended the Eskom crisis, reduced residential carbon emissions and had healthier air to breathe
August 2008 saw the first of South Africa’s rolling blackouts...
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Why pagers are ancient relics – but still alive in the hospital
In the smartphone era, we tend to think of pagers...
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