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Alan Dow

@alan_dow

Six word bio: doctor, teacher, father—needs a nap.

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calendar_today08-11-2011 01:22:16

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Higher rates of meningitis with a more invasive form of Strep: Scope of Group A Streptococcal Meningitis Isolates Using Surveillance Data jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… via JAMA part of JAMA Network

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Compared to physicians on Reddit, Chat GPT is more empathetic and gives better advice. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai… via JAMA Internal Medicine part of JAMA Network. So, don’t look for medical advice on Reddit?

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Wrapping up #ACP2023 with a full house for highlights and doctor’s dilemma. Congrats, OHSU, on the victory. See everyone in Boston next year! justinberk Megan Lemay ACP

Wrapping up #ACP2023 with a full house for highlights and doctor’s dilemma. Congrats, OHSU, on the victory. See everyone in Boston next year! <a href="/justinberk/">justinberk</a> <a href="/MeganLemayMD/">Megan Lemay</a> <a href="/ACPIMPhysicians/">ACP</a>
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Tremendous anchoring effect with AI, even the best radiologists were wrong >50% when AI gave the wrong suggestion. Very much suggests blinding and randomization necessary to truly evaluate these systems.

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I teach my learners that empathy takes work. Now, AI might lessen that work: alandowmd.com/blog/artificia… Is this a good thing?

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Wrapped up a busy, packed week of Transition to Residency (aka capstone) for our graduating med students! 20+ hours of teaching over the week with @davidjessee. So much fun, rewarding, and exhausting! VCU Hospital Medicine VCU Health #VRMedEd #nightfloatsims #bedsideprocedures

Wrapped up a busy, packed week of Transition to Residency (aka capstone) for our graduating med students! 20+ hours of teaching over the week with @davidjessee. So much fun, rewarding, and exhausting! <a href="/vcuhospitalmed/">VCU Hospital Medicine</a> <a href="/VCUHealth/">VCU Health</a> 
 #VRMedEd #nightfloatsims #bedsideprocedures
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These factors that worsen pregnancy outcomes don’t just stop at the state line; they worsen maternal outcomes in neighboring states — like Virginia. As these women leave health care deserts to seek either prenatal care and abortion services, we will see... richmond.com/opinion/column…

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These are my teammates. We are Olympic champions. Three of us tried to give birth. Two of us experienced near-death complications. One of us died. We have to, and we will do more. Tori’s death cannot and will not be in vain. time.com/6287392/tori-b…

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It's harder to separate work from personal life than we realize. Data on 47k surgeons doing 980k procedures: patients are significantly more likely to die on surgeons' birthdays. When they leave us distracted or rushed, even positive events can have negative consequences.

It's harder to separate work from personal life than we realize.

Data on 47k surgeons doing 980k procedures: patients are significantly more likely to die on surgeons' birthdays.

When they leave us distracted or rushed, even positive events can have negative consequences.
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Now that the Super Bowl has passed.... We need to talk about our gambling problem virginiamercury.com/2024/02/13/we-… via The Virginia Mercury #SuperBowl #gambling

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COMMENTARY: Reading the headlines, one would think gambling has been a huge success for Virginia. But that’s because we don’t talk about the downsides of gambling. virginiamercury.com/2024/02/13/we-…

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Excited to share our work @ VCUSOM dipping our toes into the VR realm for #meded. Low budget proof of concept and students loved it! Alan Dow Using Virtual Reality to Teach Medical Students Cross-Coverage Skills - The American Journal of Medicine amjmed.com/article/S0002-…