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Oct 7, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Heather Kristin Schopper |Anita A. Kelkar |Shadman Sinha
The keynote speaker for the opening ceremony of this year’s American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Annual Conference in Miami was Dr. Kelvin Kong, the first Aboriginal surgeon in Australia. His talk focused on his experiences growing up as part of the Aboriginal community, the past and current struggles faced by his community, and the ways he is using his time and knowledge to provide care to those who need it the most.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Ryan McCormick |Ryan Mccormick |Miguel Angel Villagra-Diaz |Jessica Reeves |Heather Kristin Schopper
We Need Human Physicians, Not AI, to Help Us Make Sense of ChaosIn recent years, and with indefatigable speed, artificial intelligence (AI) has entered the proverbial examining room. AI can be used to craft educational materials, figure out complicated patterns of symptoms en route to diagnoses, eavesdrop on conversations while writing progress notes, and even act as a kind of mental health counselor. While there is certainly promise, there is plenty of peril.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Miguel Angel Villagra-Diaz |Jessica Reeves |Heather Kristin Schopper |Danielle Pigneri
Editor’s Note: This article by a Doximity Digital Health Fellow covers a new offering, Doximity GPT. As the sun set below the horizon, it cast an amber hue across the room where I stood beside my patient. It was his last day in the hospital, and he anxiously awaited his discharge instructions. However, a language barrier threatened to disrupt our connection. Then I remembered Doximity GPT and quickly navigated to it on my tablet.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Brittany Panico |Heather Kristin Schopper |Mallory Grove |Danielle Pigneri
Practicing medicine is nothing short of variety. No two patients are alike and rarely do our patients follow treatment algorithms exactly. Some may still say this is the “art” of what we tap into as clinicians. I enjoy that I get to see patients for one complaint and diagnose them with something that unifies several other complaints they have. I feel like I “do” something when I start a treatment, because the conditions and symptoms I treat as a rheumatologist are tangible.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | helen CHEN |Heather Kristin Schopper |Ryan Richman
When I was a child, I used to snoop in the pantry of my grandparents, where I would find bags upon bags of mystery ingredients. As an adult, I now know the ingredients to be goji berries and white fungus. My grandmother was an endocrinologist and my grandfather was an infectious disease physician who practiced what we view as conventional Western medicine. But so integral in daily living in China, where my grandparents were from, was the almost inherent knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Jordan Frey |helen CHEN |Heather Kristin Schopper
AI is becoming pervasive in our culture and is likely here to stay. With that in mind, I’ve been curious about what investment tips ChatGPT would give us. I’ll admit that I’ve been a slow adopter of ChatGPT. But after testing out the Doximity AI tool recently, I’ve given more and more thought as to how we can use it. That is what ultimately led to my curiosity regarding its investment advice. I began my investigation really skeptical.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Heather Kristin Schopper |Ryan Richman |Ashna Jain
A two-hour drive. A subway ride. Two flights. Land at 1 a.m. Crash for a few hours. Another flight. A death-defying hour-long taxi ride winding through the mountains at alarming speed, passing trucks on blind curves, traversing fault lines that made the road shift and heave. All this to make it to a small town in southern Ecuador for a marathon week of humanitarian surgery with early mornings and late nights, four or five cases a day, and power outages with a patient on the table.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Avneet Soin |Tasia Isbell |Hailey Roumimper |Heather Kristin Schopper
When I was in medical school, fentanyl was a major topic of conversation and training. The recent rise of another drug, xylazine, has reminded me of this time, with an added layer of fear and uncertainty. Xylazine, commonly known as “tranq,” has also been referred to as the “zombie drug” — it has both a sedative effect and is also associated with skin ulcerations, which can lead to more severe health complications if left untreated.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Brian B Gilmer |Heather Kristin Schopper |Melina Tessier
Expanding a family can be a complicated process for patients, even for patients who are doctors themselves. Briana Rudick, MD is the director of the Columbia University Fertility Center's Third Party Reproduction Program. She is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Doximity asked Dr. Rudick to share how the field has evolved and what women physicians should consider about their own fertility.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Brian B Gilmer |Heather Kristin Schopper |Melina Tessier |paul pin
A few weeks ago I saw an old friend of mine from medical school. Not in the expected way of a text message, or a social media post, but in the clinic. She had just moved to the area and was looking on my group’s practice website and suddenly realized I was one of the physicians on staff. We had not seen each other in years. When I saw her name I was delighted. I changed the clinic schedule to make for a longer appointment.
