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You were insufferable

Amanda Xi

Today’s inane image of the day: Another gem from my London trip. Since this post is a reflection of my evolution over the years, I thought it appropriate to distill my essence through this image. These delightful treats brought me so much joy [as did the company I was with]; ultimately, this is the energy I hope I can consistently give. I was recently reflecting on who I was during internship, residency, and fellowship.

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NVIDIA CEO: ‘This Year, Every Industry Will Become a Technology Industry’

NVIDIA: Healthcare

“This year, every industry will become a technology industry,” NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told attendees Wednesday during the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. “You can now recognize and learn the language of almost anything with structure, and you can translate it to anything with structure — so text-protein, protein-text,” Huang said in a fireside chat with Martin Chavez, partner and vice chairman of global investment firm Sixth Street Partners and board chair of Recursion, a

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How simple questions and behavioral nudges are improving care

Penn Medicine

With a new round of pilot programs selected by the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, teams are looking to come up with answers for a variety of health care delivery concerns.

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Cross-Post: Medicare cuts ensure disaster to doctor-patient relationship

Neurosurgery

On the Neurosurgery Blog, you will see us cross-posting or linking to items from other places when we believe they may interest our readers. In case you missed it, we wanted to bring attention to a recent op-ed by Reps. Greg Murphy , MD, (R-N.C.), Brad Wenstrup , DPM, (R-Ohio) and Michael Burgess , MD, (R-Texas) in Washington Times titled, “Medicare cuts ensure disaster to doctor-patient relationship.

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Every moment of the day need *not* be productive

Amanda Xi

Today’s inane image of the day : Another gem from my one-day adventure out to Western MA – I finally got to explore The Clark. The impressionist room is breathtaking and if it weren’t for rain, I would have probably spent hours exploring the grounds. I spent the majority of my life feeling the pressure to “hustle.” That productivity was equated with my worth.

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Amgen to Build Generative AI Models for Novel Human Data Insights and Drug Discovery

NVIDIA: Healthcare

Generative AI is transforming drug research and development, enabling new discoveries faster than ever — and Amgen, one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies, is tapping the technology to power its research. Amgen will build AI models trained to analyze one of the world’s largest human datasets on an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD , a full-stack data center platform, that will be installed at Amgen’s deCODE genetics’ headquarters in Reykjavik, Iceland.

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Hospital workers are working longer hours—here’s how their time compares to other health care workers

Incredible Health

Written by: Ali Hickerson, Data Work By Paxtyn Merten 2023 was a year of historic labor action for U.S. health care workers. A three-day strike involving more than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente employees became the largest-ever documented health care strike in the U.S. The workers said their wages did not adjust for ‌mounting rates of inflation […] The post Hospital workers are working longer hours—here’s how their time compares to other health care workers appeared first on Incredible He

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All Signs Point to Long-Term Growth in Healthcare Sector Jobs

Pima Medical Institute

Pima Medical Institute has a more than 50-year history providing quality education in the healthcare industry All signs are pointing to a promising outlook for jobs in the healthcare sector. According to a recent Wall Street Journal article titled “ Hot Healthcare Hiring Bolsters Cooling U.S. Labor Market, ” rapid growth in healthcare hiring is bolstering a cooling US job market.

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NVIDIA Generative AI Is Opening the Next Era of Drug Discovery and Design

NVIDIA: Healthcare

In perhaps the healthcare industry’s most dramatic transformation since the advent of computing, digital biology and generative AI are helping to reinvent drug discovery, surgery, medical imaging and wearable devices. NVIDIA has been preparing for this moment for over a decade, building deep domain expertise, creating the NVIDIA Clara healthcare-specific computing platform and expanding its work with a rich ecosystem of partners.

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Watch: 5 Ways Hospitals are Using Incredible Health’s New AI to Hire Nurses Faster

Incredible Health

We have implemented generative AI across our platform recently. These new generative AI features dramatically expand opportunities for nurses and speed up the hiring process for both hospitals and nurses. The post Watch: 5 Ways Hospitals are Using Incredible Health’s New AI to Hire Nurses Faster appeared first on Incredible Health.

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Exploring Global Perspectives on Anesthesia

Salem Anesthesia

Anesthesia, a cornerstone of modern medicine, plays a pivotal role in ensuring patient comfort and safety during surgical procedures. However, the landscape of anesthesia varies significantly around the globe, influenced by factors such as healthcare infrastructure, cultural norms, and economic considerations. In this blog post, we will delve into the diverse global perspectives on anesthesia, examining practices, challenges, and innovations from different corners of the world.

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Why Surgical Smoke Evacuation in the OR is Important

CME Corp

As the byproduct of life saving lasers, electrosurgical processes, radiofrequency devices, hyfrecators, ultrasonic scalpels and other power tools, wisps of surgical smoke hanging in the air represent hope and healing for patients. For OR staff surgical smoke is an aerosol of bacteria, viruses, carcinogenic and mutagenic cells, ocular irritations, and respiratory hazards.

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Effect of Lidocaine on Breast Cancer

Nashville Anesthesia Professionals

Breast cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers and the second leading cause of cancer-related death in women. [1] As surgical resection is the primary method of treatment for these patients, there is a high risk of blood-borne metastasis. This occurs when trauma to the central tumor causes tumor cells to shed and enter the bloodstream, circulating and then exiting into distant regions of the body. [2] Additionally, surgical operations have been shown to decrease natural killer cell

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How Psychological State Affects the Operating Room (OR)

DFW Anesthesia Professionals

Many factors affect the operating room (OR) and surgery success, ranging from patient-related factors to resource-related factors to even clinician-related factors. Research has demonstrated that a patient’s psychological state can play a role; in addition, the psychological state of clinicians can also impact the OR. Developing techniques to accurately measure and study the psychological state of the surgical team in the OR is critical, along with techniques to address detrimental states.

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Kudos to our Austin Monthly Top Doctors for 2024

Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeons

We are humbled and honored to begin the new year with recognition from our peers in the local Austin medical community. CTVS is pleased to share that several members of our team of our board-certified cardiothoracic and vascular surgeons have been named to Austin Monthly magazine’s Top Doctors list for 2024.

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Helping Parents Heal After Loss

Penn Medicine

It’s OK to talk about pregnancy loss. Penn Medicine offers a wide range of support for families who have suffered the loss of a baby during pregnancy or delivery or in the first months after the birth.

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Celebrating a Successful 2023: ASC Leaders Highlight Big Wins

Surgical Information Systems

ASC leaders look back on the state of the outpatient surgery industry and reflect on the wins that ambulatory surgery centers experienced in 2023.

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Mastering Balance in an ABSN Program | Tips & Strategies

Nebraska Methodist College

Learn how to balance life and work while studying in Nebraska Methodist College's ABSN program. Discover essential tips for future nurses!

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Fear of Applying or Fear of Rejection: Finding The Courage to Apply to New Opportunities: Part 2

Association of Women Surgeons

By Denise Nemeth Rejection, once an unwelcome guest, has transformed into a catalyst for growth and redirection in my career.

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Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: January 12, 2024

LeanBlog

Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this… there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Subscribe to get these directly from Ryan via email. News, articles, books, podcasts, and videos about how to make the workplace better. Operational Excellence, Improvement, and Innovation Practical Problem Solving – the Toyota Way Back in the ‘aughts, I had the privilege of learning Toyota's practical problem-solving method from Tracey Richardson (now re

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Tailscale Mesh Virtual Private Network

RK.MD

As a tech enthusiast, it’s important that I can access all of my devices from anywhere in the world. Tailscale is a zero-configuration, WireGuard-based modern virtual private network (VPN) that enables me to achieve this goal with end-to-end encryption across the network using their free tier. Once I fire up the Tailscale client and connect to the VPN, I can access any other mesh nodes as if they were on the same local area network.

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Ann R. Stroink, MD, FAANS Retires from Neurological Surgery

Neurosurgery

Ann R. Stroink , MD, FAANS, a neurosurgeon at the forefront of advocacy efforts, retired from neurosurgery practice at Carle BroMenn Medical Center on Nov. 22, 2023. Throughout her career, Dr. Stroink has been an indefatigable force in advocating — in the halls of Congress, before the Illinois state legislature, with health plans and within organized medicine — for sound health policy to ensure patients have timely access to care.

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Featured Author Podcast: Perioperative Mortality after Covid Exposure

Anesthesiology Journal

Moderator: BobbieJean Sweitzer, M.D. Participants: Michael F. Aziz, M.D. and Paul S. Myles, M.B., B.S., M.P.H., M.D., D.Sc.

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Genocide?

Mark Raines

Is Israel inflicting genocide upon the Palestinians of Gaza? Using the diagram below from the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust , you can see parallels. Listen to Israeli government ministers if you doubt this. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in October “We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly,” “We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba,” Avi Dichter, Israeli Agriculture Minister and member of the right-wing Likud party, said Saturday, in comments widely reported by Israeli media.

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Pulmonary Velocity Acceleration Time (PVAT)

RK.MD

Pulmonary velocity acceleration time ( PVAT ), measured in milliseconds (ms), can be used to estimate pulmonary artery pressure ( PAP ) when a tricuspid regurgitation jet is difficult to locate or cannot be accurately interrogated with Doppler. In this parasternal short-axis transthoracic echo view directed anteriorly and to the patient’s right, pulsed-wave Doppler is used to quantify the flow through the pulmonic valve.

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February 2024 Editor-in-Chief Podcast

Anesthesiology Journal

Creator: James P. Rathmell, M.D., M.B.A. February 2024, Volume 140, Issue 2 Overview of February issue original studies.

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Featured Author Podcast: Revisiting the Boston Rules

Anesthesiology Journal

Moderator: James P. Rathmell, M.D. Participants: Thomas Langer, M.D. and David A. Story, M.B.B.S., B.Med.Sci., M.D.

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Featured Author Podcast: The Causes of Hypoxemia in COVID-19 ARDS

Anesthesiology Journal

Moderator: James P. Rathmell, M.D. Participants: Mattia Busana, M.D. and Marcos F. Vidal Melo, M.D., Ph.D.

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