Tech Shift: App helps doctors and med students communicate about diagnoses

Tech Shift: App helps doctors and med students communicate about diagnoses

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Social media is everywhere and there’s a platform for almost everything including diagnosing an illness. Doctors and medical students now have an app to help them communicate with their peers for second, third, even fourth opinions. It’s called “Figure 1,” and it’s been called the “Instagram for doctors.” Max Fitzgerald, a resident at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, uses the app and joins us to explain how it works.