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What to know about High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

The Joint National Committee 2003 defines hypertension as systolic of 140 mmHg and higher or diastolic 90 mmHg and higher. If you have any further questions or concerns, please talk with your primary care provider at your next appointment. What are some signs and symptoms of Hypertension?

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Navigating the Quademic: Clinical Differentiation of Influenza, RSV, COVID-19, and Norovirus in Pediatric Emergency Care

PEMBlog

Differentiating these pathogens based on clinical presentation is crucial for targeted management, minimizing unnecessary diagnostic tests, and optimizing healthcare resources. Managing acute gastroenteritis among children: oral rehydration, maintenance, and nutritional therapy. MMWR Recomm Rep 2003; 52:1.

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Lead, follow or get out of the way

Physician's Practice

This can also happen in a reverse scenario where the practice must turn to outsourcing as their backup plan because their staff is unqualified to manage an in-house billing program.) Focus on providing optimum patient care and financial success will follow Rules are made for a reason and should be followed.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

In this podcast, we cover a great deal of ground, including: Early challenges Dr. Raj faced in pain management: access to opioids, corruption, a system that doesn’t see addressing suffering as a priority. The reasons are tied to the basically poor healthcare in low and middle income countries. It is not only palliative care.

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AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use: A Podcast with Todd Semla and Mike Steinman

GeriPal

And then there was a version in 2003 which Mark participated in and he since passed. So the intention of the AGS Beers Criteria is to provide information primarily to clinicians, although to other audience as well, but medications that we consider to be potentially inappropriate in older adults. Mike: Thank you.

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

GeriPal

Eric 01:44 And we’re going to be talking about the roots of palliative care, and I think importantly, not just looking back, but what does that mean for our future as hospice and palliative care providers. You’re talking about a paradigm shift in healthcare. A good prescriber, a good symptom control manager.

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Marijuana: Top Ten Reasons for Descheduling, Rescheduling or Not

FDA Law Blog

The three letters together provide the range of actions DEA may take: no rescheduling from schedule I (former drug officials), rescheduling to schedule III (Democratic state attorneys general), or descheduling altogether (Democratic senators). Letter 1 is signed by former DEA administrators and Directors of National Drug Policy.

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