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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. Emmy: So that older person or person with maybe terminal illness or developing impairments, it might make sense for them to just keep driving because they don’t have a good replacement. Somebody who’s older, maybe just diagnosed them with very mild dementia.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

You won’t be able to diagnose them on history and physical alone. And biochemical testing is really needed in most cases to independently diagnose a specific IEM. But again, metabolic GI illness, interrupt other interruptions in feeding schedule, intense exercise. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

And yet, disenrollment from hospice, either due to patient/family revoking the benefit or stabilization of illness (extended prognosis) is remarkably high for people with dementia among some hospices. People across all diagnoses want hospice care. This is something that’s very difficult to determine in people with dementia.

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

GeriPal

And PAIR stands for the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center. So, Alex, imagine you’re a seriously-ill hospitalized patient and I’m your doctor, unluckily for you. Scott, welcome back to GeriPal. Scott: Pleasure to be here. And, of course, this is what families of patients undergoing palliative care go through.

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‘Not Accountable to Anyone’: As Insurers Issue Denials, Some Patients Run Out of Options

Physician's Weekly

By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts, the disease had spread to his bones. And in 2014, the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services temporarily lifted all prior authorization requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries seeking rehabilitative behavioral health services.

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

PEMBlog

Nat Genet 2014; 46:1274. Febrile seizures are due to the degree of fever, not the rate of temperature rise, even though we see them as the temperature is increasing rapidly in the early parts of the illness. The majority of children have febrile seizures on the first day of illness. who have more febrile illnesses.

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