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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

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I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. 2013-0421 Tighe M, Afzal NA, Bevan A, et al. Endoscopy, upper GI and endoscopy is the gold standard for diagnosing gastritis.

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What is Death? Winston Chiong and Sean Aas

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Alex 28:22 That’s not in the vital talk, serious illness, communication. And for all the ways in which every single case of brain death is so complicated, you might step back and say that brain death is working out okay in the real world, right? Winston 33:31 2013. This is not the way you break.

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Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky

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Eric Widera reminds us of the history of the Goldwater Act created by the American Psychological Association in the 1960s which states that psychiatrists should refrain from diagnosing public figures, and the American Medical Association code of ethics which likewise discourages armchair diagnosis (rule established in 2017).

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