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Seeking Nature Healing

Doctor Rachel

I don't know about you, but I have had a VERY busy spring—at work and at home—with multiple family members in need of support and medical care. When this happens, I pretty much write my own prescription, with the help and assistance of my friends and family (and especially my wonderful husband). Reduced occurrence of illness 18.

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Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.

Physician's Weekly

Robin Wolaner, 71, a retired publisher in Sausalito, California, has been known to badger friends who delay getting recommended shots, sending them relevant medical studies. “Season in and season out,” Schaffner said, “it produces outbreaks of serious respiratory illness that rivals influenza.”

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GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care

GeriPal

We deepen ourselves into the fabric of care and we make healthcare work for people who are seriously ill. How do we reduce barriers to access for palliative care, and how do we ensure that people with serious illness and palliative care needs really get that care? Attendee 9: Early integration of palliative care in medical education.

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

2013-0421 Tighe M, Afzal NA, Bevan A, et al. uh, ill defined epigastric or chest pain, and it’s often worse by eating or lying down after meals. pylori, medication overuse, particularly NSAIDs or other stressors. You also want to take a detailed history of medication use, especially NSAIDs. 2018;66(3):516-554.

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

GeriPal

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. Barbara: Oh, I think it was 2013. And so when you have that, that’s so good for the family.

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Black History Month: 10 Champions of Children’s Health & Wellness

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

“A lot of times when we talk about mental illness or mental health, I think there’s a lot missing from the conversation,” Dr. Joy said. “I It doesn’t always have to be about mental illness.” In 1891, Williams opened Provident Hospital, the first medical facility to have an interracial staff.

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

GeriPal

Eric 01:04 So we’re going to be talking about transgender health in older adults and those with serious illness. This is like, back in 2013, and I joined the faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. So when I joined Sinai In 2013, I was in a different form at that time. And great to meet Jace on here.