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Doctors and the Future of Touch

October 14, 2011 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

I wonder about the future of touch. I suffer with herniated lumbar disks. L4-L5 bulges and ruptures on occasion. If you catch me on the wrong day I have a little curvature to my back representing the spasm that makes me miserable. I saw an extremely well-referenced orthopedic surgeon in consultation recently.  But through the course of my visit he never touched ... Continue Reading about Doctors and the Future of Touch

Tagged With: MD Future, Physical exam, Touch

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Can Machines Act Like Doctors?

March 1, 2011 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minutes

Recently I spent some time watching videos of surgeon David Samadi and the Da Vinci robotic operating sytem.  I began thinking about doctors and automation. I wondered, can machines act like doctors? I wondered what part of me will be replaced by  artificial intelligence?  I suspect that much of what I do will be done more efficiently by machine. Then I thought ... Continue Reading about Can Machines Act Like Doctors?

Tagged With: Artificial intelligence

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What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly

February 13, 2011 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

Last week I read Kevin Kelly’s What Technology Wants (Viking, 2010/Affiliate link).  Drawing from the fields of psychology, art, and science, What Technology Wants offers a dense but thought provoking look at the way technology advances. The book centers around the expansion of what Kelly calls the technium.  This is a term he has coined to describe “the greater, ... Continue Reading about What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly

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iPhone Attribution Error – When Patients Think the Doctor is Texting

December 23, 2010 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

This post from nurse blogger SaraBethRN is important.  She recounts an experience where she referenced her iPhone for a lab value and was accused of texting on the job.  This has happened to me on a couple of occasions. It’s the iPhone attribution error: If you’re looking at your iPhone, you must be goofing off. We sometimes associate phone use with those who are ... Continue Reading about iPhone Attribution Error – When Patients Think the Doctor is Texting

Tagged With: Attention, Doctoring 101, Physicians, Smartphones

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