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Joe Stanganelli
Joe Stanganelli
5/11/2016 9:13:01 AM
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Re: 'tever
@mpouraryan: With all the nerds like us here on this telco tech site, I'm guessing you didn't need the note explaining who McCoy is.  ;)

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Joe Stanganelli
Joe Stanganelli
5/11/2016 9:12:24 AM
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Re: Meh.
Not to trash her, but I never was a fan of that charity.  Forget clean water and curing malaria; let's send these kids some laptops!  :/

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mpouraryan
mpouraryan
5/10/2016 11:31:19 PM
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Re: 'tever
Medicine is undergoing transformation just like anything else--as epitomized by this story:

http://gizmodo.com/a-robots-performed-the-first-ever-autonomous-suturing-o-1774855279

Where is Dr. McCoy when we need him?

(PS--For those who wonder, he's the Physician from Star Trek)!!

 

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mhhf1ve
mhhf1ve
5/10/2016 9:15:12 PM
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Re: 'tever
> "In the United States, at least, it doesn't look like we're training enough doctors..."

I've always wondered about the economics of the AMA and how doctors are trained. There seems to be a hard cut-off for training doctors in the US in certain medical schools. 

I thought the "OD" (instead of "MD") schools were an alternative to try to alleviate the doctor shortage, but I don't think it's really caught on?

Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_MD_and_DO_in_the_United_States

There are plenty of professional organizations -- lawyers and accountants and even hair stylists have training requirements, but they don't necessarily limit the number of people in their respective fields like doctors do... I'm not sure how the history of medical training has allowed this to happen?

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JohnBarnes
JohnBarnes
5/10/2016 9:00:11 PM
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Re: 'tever
In the United States, at least, it doesn't look like we're training enough doctors because a bit over half the fully qualified applicants are not allowed into medical school, in order to keep prices up and doctors well-off. This is not a problem that requires much in the way of technology to solve.

Access to specialists will be a great deal more useful if there's a fully trained primary care physician at the remote site.

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Ariella
Ariella
5/10/2016 8:30:20 PM
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mhhf1ve telemedicine is an important development. In this article, it's called, " one of the biggest digital health care trends in 2015,"

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mhhf1ve
mhhf1ve
5/10/2016 7:56:44 PM
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> "Making the advances in medical imaging of the last 40 years easily available at the small-and-remote clinic level certainly qualifies as a shrewd business initiative."

Remote medicine is going to be a huge business -- if any patient can been "virtually" seen by doctors with highly speciailized training. It doesn't look like we're training enough doctors, so the demand for specialized medicine is going to just grow as people are aware that the medical technology exists -- and that patients can live longer and better lives with the right treatments.

 

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mhhf1ve
mhhf1ve
5/10/2016 7:51:25 PM
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Re: Reality check?
I actually wonder if the product that Mary Lou Jepsen will work on isn't simply an "augmented reality" way to display regular MRI data? Making an actual miniature MRI machine is an incredibly difficult project, but maybe they've got something in the works that truly is amazing -- producing localized high magneitc fields without superconducting materials.... 

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mhhf1ve
mhhf1ve
5/10/2016 7:47:10 PM
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Re: Reality check?
> "Dr.  Jonathan Rothberg, the man behind the Butterfy Network believes it's possible"

Oh. Yah, miniaturized ultrasound is totally possible. Ultrasound technology doesn't have that many requirements, and the signal processing for it is very mature.

*MRI* tech, on the other hand, is an entirely different beast. High field magnets and flipping the nuclear spins of atoms is still a pretty tricky thing to do (looking at changes in a "parts per million" range or less). Making a handheld or wearable MRI machine is going to be a real breakthrough -- and I'm not sure the science even exists yet.

I think I vaguely recall there being a "different kind" of magnetic resonance that relied more on the radio pulses instead of the magnetic field... but... that's a kind of MRI that isn't even used at all, as far as I know. So making a miniturized version might be possible, but they'd first have to make it work to produce images that could be interpreted by medical professionals.... 

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batye
batye
5/10/2016 1:58:49 AM
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Re: facebook exec
@mpouraryan  Blackberry bended over trying to be nice to everyone who have power... but for the eyes of the law we are all = ... or don't we...  BB paid the price at the end... 

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