Google Glass now reads like a very period-specific artifact, but the underlying question was real: what happens when clinicians can access information or share context without stepping away from the care interaction itself?

The piece focused on that practical layer. Hands-free access, remote consultation, surgery, and home-care use cases were interesting, but so were the less glamorous constraints around privacy, compliance, and whether the workflow value was enough to justify the complexity.

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