In doctors’ offices, this digital influx of health information requires a new style of patient interaction, say South Florida physicians.
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Cindy Krischer Goodman,
Sun Sentinel,
20 June 2026
For example, of the 535 voting members of Congress, only nine are engineers, one is a physicist, one is a chemist, one is a geologist and 30 are physicians.
Healthcare systems face an impossible ratio of clinicians to patients, and this technology is already letting a single care team maintain continuous contact with thousands of patients who would otherwise go unmonitored between appointments.
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Alex Knapp,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
Yet more than half of its counties are classified as maternity care deserts — areas with no hospital or birth center offering obstetric services and no obstetric clinicians, as defined by the March of Dimes.
AIs will be our friends, our confidants, our therapists, our doctors, our employees, our business partners—and yes, in many cases, our romantic partners and lovers.
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Rob Toews,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2026
After four days in intensive care, doctors determined Jaxon had no brain activity and removed him from life support.
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