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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. You know, baby boomer generation started to turn 65 and older back in 2011. Alex 01:57 Joe, which city are you joining from? Joe 01:59 Ann Arbor. Alex 02:00 Ann Arbor, where I went to undergrad. Yael, welcome to GeriPal. I’m excited.

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How to identify a victim of heat exhaustion or heat stroke

Medical Xpress

The temperature is just going to continue to rise and at some point thats going to lead to death," says Wood, who has worked as a nurse practitioner in the emergency room. "Its like taking the batteries out of your thermostat. Thats when we really need to aggressively cool people off in an ice bath."

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