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

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Virtual visits can diagnose colds, flu , or allergies and help you manage symptoms at home. How Doctor On Demand can help with chest congestion right now If you’re experiencing chest congestion and need answers immediately, start a virtual visit with a board-certified healthcare provider today with Doctor On Demand.

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

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In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? We think there are some cases, certain kinds of illnesses or conditions or operations, where people have the surgery and never get out of bed again. What does it mean for functional status, symptom management, location of care? Eric: Yeah.