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

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The American Thoracic Society’s 2015 study, “The Relationship of Mucus Concentration (Hydration) to Mucus Osmotic Pressure and Transport in Chronic Bronchitis,” found that clearing excess mucus is a significant factor in protecting the lungs from “inhaled infectious and noninfectious challenges.” Sign up today.

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

GeriPal

MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. 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. Katie: Sure.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

And we looked at the electronic health records at both of those hospital systems, the MGB network, folks who had fee-for-service Medicare coverage from October 2015 to about September 2017, 6,800 patients. I mean, financially, the bulk of the American healthcare system is a fee-for-service system. Samir: Unequivocally, unequivocally.

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Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers

GeriPal

Jerry: Well, I started in 2015 doing the Jewish body washing after the death. I’ve got 35 years in and I have no access to the parole board, no access for release unless commutation by the governor or changing the law or something and that’s just what it is. The board can do their job. That’s their job.

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