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Parvo Podcast! Erythema Infectiosum, Fifth Disease, and more!

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Recognize key diagnostic features that help differentiate Parvovirus B19 from other viral exanthems and systemic illnesses. It was discovered by accident back in 1975, so a little bit before I was born, and it was labeled B19 because of the sample number in a Hepatitis B screening panel. I’ll go over those as we move along here.

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

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This week, we talk about the other major palliative care trial of default palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COPD, kidney disease, or dementia, published in the same issue of JAMA. And PAIR stands for the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center. Scott, welcome back to GeriPal. I just go for the gusto.