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Survey: 1 in 3 patients comfortable with AI-led primary care

Healthcare It News

Years ago, it would have been hard to believe you could connect with your doctor on your phone. Now patient portals, chat features and mobile versions of health records are fairly common practice. Human practitioners are subject to bias and error in their work, and AI is no different.

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Shaved Costs, High Risk, Maximum Profits: Regulators Worry About Florida’s Butt Lift Boom

KHN

Unlike ambulatory surgery centers and hospitals, where a patient might stay overnight for observation after treatment, office-based surgery centers offer procedures that don’t typically require an inpatient stay and are regulated as an extension of a doctor’s private practice. It’s assistants.”

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Shaved Costs, High Risk, Maximum Profits: Regulators Worry About Florida’s Butt Lift Boom

KHN

Unlike ambulatory surgery centers and hospitals, where a patient might stay overnight for observation after treatment, office-based surgery centers offer procedures that don’t typically require an inpatient stay and are regulated as an extension of a doctor’s private practice. It’s assistants.”