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During this Grand Rounds, experts discuss "Fountain of Creativity or Pandora's Box? Large Language Models in Healthcare: From Concept to Application." Presenter: Ron Li, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Hospital Medicine, Jonathan Chen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine - Biomedical Informatics.

"We have a market that's totally just focused on price" at the expense of safety and ensuring availability, says Dr. Kevin Schulman, a professor of medicine and business at Stanford University.

Patients struggling with pain often seek out hypnosis when they’ve run out of options – but it doesn’t have to be a last resort. Stanford researchers found a biomarker in patients’ saliva and blood that helps identify people who are more hypnotizable than others, with the goal of using hypnosis as an effective treatment for controlling pain.

During this Grand Rounds, experts discuss "Directing US Covid-19 Testing and Caring for Afghan Refugees and Unaccompanied Children at the Border." Presenter: Dean Winslow, MD, Professor of Medicine in Hospital Medicine and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Stanford Medicine researcher Dr. Jonathan Chen discusses the promise and danger of using AI, such as ChatGPT, in medicine.

Clinicians in the School of Medicine address climate change by leading practical projects under the new Sustainability Seed Grant Program.

"EHR casts the physician as the highest-paid data entry clerk in the health system, spending hours entering—and re-entering—information into the record. If frontline clinicians don’t want to get beaten up by the new applications of AI, as many feel they were by the rollout of the EHR, they will want to get involved in planning for its implementation."

The public approach to the coronavirus has become more laissez-faire. Read more to see what Dr. Kevin Schulman's thoughts are on why there is a decrease in cooperation with public health efforts.