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A New Outlook: How Carrier Screening Shaped One Family’s Future

Myriad Genetics

Ashley’s journey to a diagnosis for Christopher probably felt like forever to their family. From symptom onset until diagnosis, searching families visit an average of more than seven specialists and spend 4.8 1 , 1–15 (2013). But in the world of rare genetic diseases, it was relatively short. years getting answers.

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. 2013-0421 Tighe M, Afzal NA, Bevan A, et al. Now, in the pediatric emergency department, the diagnosis of reflux is primarily clinical. Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. Pediatrics.

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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

In 2013, only 56 percent of Americans owned a smartphone, which climbed to around 90% by now. Self-surveillance solutions, disease guides, educational apps as well as telehealth platforms appeared naturally in dermatology in the past decade. Here’s our take on the most useful and efficient dermatology apps for the health of your skin.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

Alex 00:41 And we’re delighted to welcome Noelle Marie Javier, who goes by “she” “her” and is a geriatrician and palliative care doc professor, newly minted – c ongratulations – And a clinician educator at Mount Sinai in New York City. So when I joined Sinai In 2013, I was in a different form at that time.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

Barbara: Oh, I think it was 2013. Now, my SWHPN friends will get mad at me if I got that wrong, but I think it was 2013. Again, it happened because the dean of the medical school at that time said, “We were teaching interprofessional education and we were quite successful with it and we’ve been doing it for years.”

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What is Death? Winston Chiong and Sean Aas

GeriPal

I love these topics, too, because even how do we define what is a diagnosis? Winston 33:31 2013. This way of coping with pluralism is a tradition that he really extended and pioneered and was deeply influential. And a lot of my work has kind of been that vein. Eric 04:38 And can I ask you, when did you. Alex 04:49 Amyloid.

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Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Ken Covinsky reminds us that we should not be making a diagnosis based on what we see on TV, and that if a patient’s daughter expressed a concern that their parent “wasn’t right,” we would conduct an in depth evaluation that might last an hour. You hear people, a lot of talking heads on tv. I am unable to make certain pronouncements.

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