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

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Most children who present to Pediatric Emergency Departments these days with mental health concerns – including agitation – have a known psychiatric problem or diagnosis. Furthermore, the connection between physical and functional symptoms is inextricably linked in many patients. J Inherit Metab Dis 2007; 30:631.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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Not the most common circumstances that people with serious illness face where attention and understanding of what my goals and values are. And, that’s to help people who have serious illness, that’s to help people who have diseases of aging at a younger age, people who are homeless, people who are incarcerated.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

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Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? I think part of this does stem from a clinical experience and also some of the theoretical models that have evolved around serious illness, you know, to think specifically about dementia. And the government can do something about that?!?

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