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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 1: Differentiating organic versus psychiatric causes of agitation and altered mental status

PEMBlog

Furthermore, the connection between physical and functional symptoms is inextricably linked in many patients. After listening to this episode you will be able to: Describe the findings on history and physical examination that differentiate organic vs psychiatric causes of agitation and altered mental status. Psychiatric emergencies.

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A Question 30 Years in the Making: Would a Final LDT Rule Withstand Judicial Scrutiny?

FDA Law Blog

Conspicuously missing is any rebuttal to one other issue raised in the June 22, 2020 HHS memo : that laboratories based out of state universities or public health departments are not “persons” as defined in key premarket review and enforcement provisions of the FD&C Act.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. But now we have older people dying of older people illnesses. He struggled with mental illness, substance use disorder. Michele: Yep. Eric: Mm-hmm.

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