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Washington Post: Medical Students Losing Interest in Emergency Medicine

Posted on March 21, 2023 by Devon Herrick

March 17 was Match Day, the day when nearly 43,000 medical school graduates discovered where they would spend the next three to seven years finishing their graduate medical training. Residency is required before medical school graduates can practice medicine in the United States.

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Monday Links

Posted on March 20, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • FREOPP: Switzerland leads the world in health care innovation.
  • Misspending and fraud in pandemic relief may be as high as $400 billion. Can we get the money back?
  • IRS: You can use your HSA, HRA or FSA to pay for a gym membership, so long as you doctor “prescribes” the membership, say, for weight loss.
  • Biden supports “gender affirming” pediatric care.
  • New and more rigorous study: Women who married had a 35% lower risk of death for any reason, lower risk of cardiovascular disease, less depression and loneliness; and they were happier and more optimistic, and had a greater sense of purpose and hope.
  • EVT is creating radically better outcomes for stroke victims, but only a handful of hospitals offer it. Telemedicine helps. (NYT)
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Can’t Find a Doctor Who Takes Medicare, Medicaid or Obamacare? Blame Congress (and the AMA)!

Posted on March 17, 2023March 17, 2023 by Devon Herrick

Imagine spending most of your life preparing to be a doctor. You get straight As in high school and college. You are accepted to medical school and four years later you graduate with a Doctor of Medicine degree. Your training is not over, however. Medical school graduates must go through a residency training program, which is a requirement to practice medicine in all 50 states. Not all medical graduates will be accepted into residency. In other words, the National Resident Matching Program (Match) is a game of musical chairs, where the losers lose not only their seat but often their career.

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NY Times: AI Can Read Mammograms as Good or Better than Radiologists

Posted on March 11, 2023 by Devon Herrick

There is a new artificial intelligence (AI) interface that’s been in the news lately called ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a language-based AI chatbot that can do many things humans can do. Some tasks it can do better than humans can do. A week or so ago I asked Would You See an AI Doctor?, Saying:

Radiologists sometimes use computer-aided detection (CAD) to interpret mammograms as a backup to human interpretation. Using both a radiologist and CAD together increases accuracy.

A few days later The New York Times reported on an ongoing test in Hungary, where AI is being used to assist in reading mammograms.

Inside a dark room at Bács-Kiskun County Hospital outside Budapest, Dr. Éva Ambrózay, a radiologist with more than two decades of experience, peered at a computer monitor showing a patient’s mammogram.

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