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Golden years, golden risk: the startling increase of STDs in seniors

Shannon Dowler, MD
Conditions
February 16, 2023

An excerpt from Never Too Late: Your Guide to Safer Sex after 60.

The sexual revolution that began in the 1960s challenged social norms and traditional concepts, promoted acceptance, and liberated individuals from sexual repression. It effectively transformed society and how we, in the United States, thought about sex. Today, those …

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Will artificial intelligence be able to have this conversation?

Shannon Dowler, MD
Tech
February 5, 2019

Transformation of health care is underway: The landscape is filled with innovation, and the horizon is dotted with technological possibilities of “Star Trek” ilk. In a recent New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst article, there was a compelling argument for how artificial intelligence (AI) of the future will help deliver us from a high cost, high variability, poorly resourced state and help deliver the IHI triple aim quest we in …

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Will artificial intelligence be able to have this conversation?

“The Wait” after a mammogram changes lives

Shannon Dowler, MD
Conditions
January 30, 2019

There is something both intimate and mysterious about the waiting area for mammograms. You sit in a relatively small space; chairs close together with a gown tied to cover your nakedness, your normally restrained lady parts flopping free against the scratchy fabric. There are young and old, black and white, grey and blond and even sometimes bald. There are women with coiffed hair and manicured fingers bright with diamonds and …

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