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Nov

3D Ultrasound Technology- Future Vision 4

Posted by Steven F. Palter, MD Published in Endoscopic Surgery, Medical Societies, Musings, Technology, Visualization

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3D ultrasound of IUD in uterus
3D Visualization is one of the concepts I spoke about in my session on FutureVision- The Coming Radical Transformation of Surgery at the AAGL meeting. In gyn, the use of 3D ultrasound has become commonplace. In general, an imaging machine (ultrasound, CT, or MRI can all do it) takes a […]

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Nov

Live to be 100? DITM Tells You How

Posted by Steven F. Palter, MD Published in Medical Societies, Medicine-general & other, Musings, Technology

A study from the University of Chicago has been getting a lot of press attention lately. They found that your chances of living to 100 may depend on how young your mother was when she gave birth to you with chances doubled if mom was under 25. The reports do not give the explanation why.
DITM has […]

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Nov

Grand Rounds Vol. 3, No. 10 is Up!

Posted by Steven F. Palter, MD Published in Endoscopic Surgery, Medical Societies, Medicine-general & other, Musings, Technology, Visualization

Thanks to Dr. RW for an excellent Grand Rounds. I especially like this one for including a series of purely clinical posts. There has been a discussion running about the purpose of GR and some think it should only be literary pieces aimed at the lay public. I think the best of themedical blogosphere can […]

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Nov

Docinthemachine “FutureVision” Surgery Podcast

Posted by Steven F. Palter, MD Published in Endoscopic Surgery, Medical Societies, Medicine-general & other, Military, Musings, Robotics, Technology, Visualization

Here is the link to the podcast of my interview at the Global AAGL congress– we discuss my vision for the coming radical transformation of surgery. For now the society requires you to (free) register to listen. The interview is at the bottom of the podcast section under AAGL 35th Annual Meeting Presents: Ways of […]

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Nov

Docinthemachine Fever Spreads- Podcasts and Video Coming Soon!

Posted by Steven F. Palter, MD Published in Medical Societies, Musings, Technology

Digital dreams
Thank you so very much to all the readers and supporters of docinthemachine. In the few short months that DITM has been up (since 9/11/06) the interest has been growing exponentially (does it follow Moore’s Law?).
Thanks to all the Grand Rounds Editors who have linked to my posts, to Kim at Emergiblog for her enthusiastic […]

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Nov

Grand Rounds - Volume 3 number 9 is Up!

Posted by Steven F. Palter, MD Published in Medicine-general & other, Musings

Thanks to Dr. Anonymous for all his work on this edition of GR. He had the daunting task of editing a GR with a limited post number to try to keep it hot and all of outstanding caliber (and one readers could get through)
Welcome to the most anticipated Grand Rounds in a long time! These […]

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Nov

The Power of Genetics and IVF Embryos- and the Controversy

Posted by Steven F. Palter, MD Published in Musings, Technology, genetics

I am just about to finish an IVF cycle I am doing with a lovely couple. They are in one of the best prognosis groups. He has children from a previous marriage as does she. She had a tubal ligation and “only” has blocked tubes (this is the best prognosis group for IVF). She is […]

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Nov

FutureSurgery - Alternative Visualization-Part 3 Near IR Imaging

Posted by Steven F. Palter, MD Published in Endoscopic Surgery, Medical Societies, Musings, Technology, Visualization

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Example– Near IR Microscope: I have been writing on the concept of alternate visualization systems. That is, the paradigm shift that will occur when endoscopic surgery moves beyond innate human abilities and adds new capabilities. The first of these will be alternative visualizations that lets the surgeon using the scope see […]

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Nov

FutureSurgery - Alternative Visualization- Part2 Infrared

Posted by Steven F. Palter, MD Published in Endoscopic Surgery, Medical Societies, Musings, Technology, Visualization

Continuing in the series of the future of surgery (see intro to series here). I previously posted about veinviewer. This is the camera system that uses infrared light to see the veins under the skin. I wanted to post this video I made of the system being used at Nextfest to demonstrate how it works […]

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Nov

Futuresurgery- The Coming Radical Transformation of Surgery

Posted by Steven F. Palter, MD Published in Endoscopic Surgery, Future, Gesture Control, Medical Societies, Musings, Technology, Visualization

What is the future of surgery in the next decade? This will be a series of posts I will write on my vision for the future of surgery 10 years from now. The concepts are based upon the plenary session lecture I gave at the 35th Annual AAGL Global Congress of Gyn Endoscopy 2006 in […]

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