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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. Depending on your personal medical history and open discussion with your physician, this will guide your treatment plan. What are some signs and symptoms of Hypertension?

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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. What she called total pain, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual, and she started addressing it. Healthcare industry cannot do it.

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

GeriPal

I have felt as I’ve come through this field over the last, I guess 2003 is when I realized I wanted to be a palliative care doctor. A good prescriber, a good symptom control manager. Like why did you think it was important to do a GeriPal podcast on it? Justin 04:00 Yeah, that’s a great question. Balfour amount.

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Marijuana: Top Ten Reasons for Descheduling, Rescheduling or Not

FDA Law

Not surprisingly, then-presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson, DEA Administrator from 2001 to 2003, did not sign the letter. Rescheduling increases the ability to research cannabis to determine the physical and mental impacts of cannabis use. The earliest tenured is John Bartels, who served as Administrator from 1973 to 1975.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

So we realized that we had a series of cross-sectional studies in San Francisco from the early 1990s to 2003. We looked at it and realized that in the early 1990s, 11% of folks were 50 and over, and by 2003, 37% were. But they would ask a bunch of questions. They were working usually more than one job.