A doctor's appointment schedule is crazy busy, with "LONG" appointments being under 20min per patient. Imagine a scenario where a doctor is able to spend time with the patient/their medical history etc.
I spend a lot of time going to doctors appointments these days, and a large number of the doctors that I see, now have an assistant/transcriptionist in the room to manage the EMR/charting app, because that enables them to focus on the patient.
I have a really rare cancer, and it didn't get detected until I hit stage IV and it started shattering my bones. Thankfully I lived 2 miles from a cancer research hospital that actually has a specialist in this type of organ cancer.
My current treatment regime is based on a research paper. My insurance initially denied me treatment based on "an expert in the field" and stupidly listed the doctors name. I looked her up and she was a podiatrist...
For the most part, my treatment is dialed in and mostly working. But I had a solid three months of fighting with the insurance company to get all of the medications, and I do the monthly phone calls to three different specialty pharmacies to get all of the various things that keep me able to walk.
Its a crazy hard problem because one of my medications is a "failed" cancer drug. Tens of millions of dollars worth of R&D, several clinical trials, and it turns out it doesn't work on most common cancers. (And even on cancers it does work on, its usually used as a Hail Mary play, at EOL because it might give someone a few more weeks, maybe). It costs roughly 40k a month, and I might be stuck on it for the rest of my days.
They have had a very solid store business at one point selling electronic kits. (Pi's, Arduino, etc).
A few years ago the kits were even in every Barnes and Nobel ni the country at Christmas. (And sadly most of them were in the clearance bin in January...)
I'd grab a couple of Sphero robots (little bluetooth rolling balls) and show them changing colors/moving around the room via code. The apps for them have programming environments.
https://tripleaughtdesign.com, its tactical clothing that at one point was very similar to the stuff special forces guys were wearing. (They are selling more and more 'urban' friendly stuff these days). Most of it is made in America.
Disney is CRAZY competent at content distribution.
ESPN is a Disney company, Movies Anywhere (is/was) a Disney project, the Disney+ service they are talking about is actually public v2.0 (They rolled out something similar in Europe a few years back, called Disney Life).
Disney has a universal "login" system, that shares your profile/preferences everywhere from parks to cable, its got everything favorite sports teams/players and can serve up custom content and more.
There is a lot going on at the house of mouse. (Do a job search on the Disney website and set your region to tech hub outside of LA/Orlando...)
Its not game-changing. That said, its a great step forward.
The T-Cell treatments or CAR-T cell treatments is one of the most promising lines of research in cancer treatment. Fred Hutch is doing a lot of research on right now. Seattle Cancer Care (which is associated with Fred Hutch) has an entire floor devoted to CAR-T trials.
https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/the-hutch-i...
The interesting bit is that this is a successful trial on a solid tumors. CAR-T has shown that its most effective on non-solid tumors or blood based cancers. A few months ago there was a Stanford press release on them doing a combination of injecting solid tumor CAR-T and alcohol, which caused a singular tumor to be attacked and removed.
One of the things that came up at a recent kidney cancer seminar I attended, is that they are seeing better immune response with a more diverse gut biome.
The University of Washington researchers weren't willing to give medical advice, but they were very pro- immune treatment patients taking probiotics. They are still a few years out from publishing.