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The Truth About Telemedicine and Stethoscopes

April 28, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

I watched a news segment this week about the rising popularity of telemedicine. The segment profiled a doctor and showed him conducting a telemedicine visit in his home. To my surprise he was wearing a stethoscope around his neck. It got me thinking about telemedicine and stethoscopes.  I asked my wife, ‘what’s he plannin’ do with that stethoscope, I ... Continue Reading about The Truth About Telemedicine and Stethoscopes

Tagged With: Physician Identity, Stethoscope, Telemedicine

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Telemedicine Fatigue and the Stress of Remote Care

April 24, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

The first thing I heard from my team after starting full time telehealth was the exhaustion that seemed to set in at the end of the day. I have noticed this myself. After 8 hours of back-to-back virtual engagement with parents I found myself with a kind of telemedicine fatigue that’s hard to describe. Then I started hearing the same sentiment from doctors on ... Continue Reading about Telemedicine Fatigue and the Stress of Remote Care

Tagged With: Telemedicine

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Consumer Electronics Show as a Reflection of our Misery

January 30, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

I’ve always believed that the technology sold to us by Silicon Valley is push, not pull. In other words, these gadgets are solutions looking for a problem — not the other way around. Like the gadgetry showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show, there’s stuff we don’t need but we’re told we can’t live without.  But this look at the Consumer Electronics Show in ... Continue Reading about Consumer Electronics Show as a Reflection of our Misery

Tagged With: Human, Technology

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Data-Driven Physician – 2020 Stanford Med Health Report

January 13, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

In a field now awash with data and technologies, physicians are preparing for the transformation of patient care, according to the 2020 Health Trends Report, The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician, published by Stanford Medicine. The report documents key trends steering the healthcare's future, including an emerging digital health market, new laws opening patient ... Continue Reading about Data-Driven Physician – 2020 Stanford Med Health Report

Tagged With: Human, MD Future, Technology

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Butterfly iQ Moments – Should Med Students Have a POCUS?

August 21, 2019 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

During its revered white coat ceremony last week The University of California Irvine School of Medicine gave Butterfly iQ pocket ultrasound devices to its medical students. The future, it seems, belongs to POCUS (point of care ultrasound). Twitter lit up. Social sentiment pinned the Butterfly iQ as the new stethoscope. Every armchair futurist was over the ... Continue Reading about Butterfly iQ Moments – Should Med Students Have a POCUS?

Tagged With: Medical education, Physical exam, Stethoscope, Technology

Future Medicine, Patients

The Physician and the Health Docent

August 13, 2019 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

Last week STAT First Opinion carried the story of a young woman who learned of her BRCA1 (mutation predisposing to breast cancer) mutation on a 23andMe report. She describes the experience of processing that explosive bit of information in the isolation of her own mind and information network. Contrasting this experience with the confirmation of her status with a ... Continue Reading about The Physician and the Health Docent

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Bryan Vartabedian is a pediatrician at Baylor College of Medicine / Texas Children’s Hospital and one of health care’s influential voices on technology & medicine.
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