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Jul 31, 2024 | 
webmd.com | Joe Kita
Taming a Toxic Threat New AI tools send lifesaving alerts on sepsis. Taming a Toxic Threat New AI tools send lifesaving alerts on sepsis. A Fast-Moving Threat Sepsis stems from an infection — bacterial, fungal, or viral — that gains traction in the body. It happens when the body's response to the infection surges into overdrive.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
webmd.com | Joe Kita
June 20, 2024 -- I got cut from my high school basketball team. In my only marathon, I momentarily thought I’d lost bowel control. (It was the guy limping ahead of me.) And in the Men’s Senior Baseball League over-60 division, I’m hitting a torrid .182. My sporting life has been one long series of sobering comedowns. Just when my ego led me to believe I was approaching mastery, I’d be reminded that I wasn’t.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
thechronicle.com.gh | Joe Kita
Chris and Bradley Ewing were vacationing near Lake Michigan in July 2023 when their 15-year-old son, Nate, started telling them that his heart was racing and that he was “not feeling right.” Nate had just had a cardiac arrest and collapsed during basketball practice. The news was all over social media. After all, Nate was thin and fit, and although he’d been diagnosed with ADHD in second grade, he’d had normal wellness exams ever since.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
univadis.es | Joe Kita
Los quirófanos del segundo piso del Hospital Lehigh Valley de Allentown, en Pensilvania, Estados Unidos, están numerados secuencialmente, excepto cuando se llega al que debería ser el quirófano 13. Es el quirófano M. La M no significa Maternidad ni ninguna otra especialidad. En este centro asistencial de alta tecnología y vanguardia, está ahí más bien para ahuyentar el "mal yuyu" y los malos espíritus.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
mdedge.com | Joe Kita
Publish date: April 15, 2024 In a 2023 study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, European researchers fed the AI system ChatGPT information on 30 ER patients. Details included physician notes on the patients’ symptoms, physical exams, and lab results. ChatGPT made the correct diagnosis in 97% of patients compared to 87% for human doctors.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
espanol.medscape.com | Joe Kita
Los quirófanos del segundo piso del Hospital Lehigh Valley de Allentown, en Pensilvania, Estados Unidos, están numerados secuencialmente, excepto cuando se llega al que debería ser el quirófano 13. Es el quirófano M. La M no significa Maternidad ni ninguna otra especialidad. En este centro asistencial de alta tecnología y vanguardia, está ahí más bien para ahuyentar el mal yuyu y los malos espíritus.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
mdedge.com | Joe Kita
Publish date: April 4, 2024 The second-floor operating rooms at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania, are numbered sequentially — except when you get to what should be operation room (OR) 13. It’s OR M. The M doesn’t stand for Maternity or any other specialty. Rather in this high-tech, state-of-the art healthcare center, it’s there to ward off bad juju and evil spirits.
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Mar 31, 2024 | 
univadis.it | Joe Kita
"Proprio come gli edifici più alti di solito non hanno un 13° piano o gli hotel non hanno una stanza 13, questa scelta ruota intorno alla superstizione comune sulla natura sfortunata del numero 13", spiega un portavoce dell'ospedale. Durante la pandemia, al pubblico è stato ripetutamente detto che la medicina moderna si basa sulla scienza. Ma quando ho iniziato a parlare con chirurghi e altri medici per questo articolo, ho scoperto qualcosa di decisamente non scientifico.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
medscape.com | Joe Kita
The second-floor operating rooms at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania, are numbered sequentially — except when you get to what should be operation room (OR) 13. It's OR M. The M doesn't stand for Maternity or any other specialty. Rather in this high-tech, state-of-the art healthcare center, it's there to ward off bad juju and evil spirits.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
espanol.medscape.com | Joe Kita
Mi madre, que tiene 89 años, cree que FaceTime implica una rutina de limpieza facial. Así que, comprensiblemente, se quedó perpleja cuando la senté delante de la computadora para su primera consulta de telesalud. ─No sé si esto me va a gustar. ¿Cómo se llama este nuevo doctor? Afortunadamente, el médico fue rápido y apareció en la pantalla sonriente con una bata blanca de laboratorio con su nombre bordado sobre el bolsillo del pecho. ─Hola, Connie. Soy el Dr. X. ¿Cómo se siente hoy?
