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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

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. I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Pediatrics.

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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? Patients families want to know whether their loved one has died. Doctors want to know whether the patient has died. You know, when is it okay to harvest organs from a patient? Insurance companies. It’s coming up very much right now.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

The episodes turned both women into advocates for patients and spurred research that made American health care safer. Haskell, of Columbia, South Carolina, has done research and helped write AHRQ-published surveys and guidebooks on patient engagement for hospitals. It also has published tools and guidelines to enhance patient safety.