MedPage Today December 16, 2024
Fred Pelzman

— The right support teams, along with more advanced AI, could go a long way

Give us enough resources, and the right resources, and we can do just about anything — and just about everything.

Recently, a colleague of mine who is a super specialized subspecialist announced they were retiring, and a number of patients sent messages through the portal asking me who is going to take over the care of the medical problem that this colleague had been managing.

First of all, I know all of the other subspecialists in our institution who manage these types of medical problems, and all of them are overextended and have no capacity to take on new patients. Secondly, for the most part,...

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