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When to Go to a Doctor for Chest Congestion: At-home Care vs. Medical Attention

Doctor On Demand

This concern is especially serious for people with high blood pressure, diabetes, or who have a history of heart disease. Questions for your appointment Write down questions for your doctor and check them off during your appointment. Ask the doctor what symptoms should trigger a follow-up appointment.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Why would CBT work for neuropathic pain and diabetes differently than it would work for neuropathic pain and cancer? And as of 2015, the survey started to ask folks about cancer history, just some broad questions about lifetime history of cancer and whether they’ve had a cancer diagnosis in the past year. Why would that be?

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

An inspiring leader and educator of the next generation of physicians, Doctor Wible has been named one of the 2015 Women Leaders in Medicine and the “Physicians Guardian Angel.” I’m really into fasting but fasting is contraindicated if you’re diabetic and a number of other conditions I saw on the slide (in an earlier talk).

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