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Have Job-Based Health Coverage at 65? You May Still Want To Sign Up for Medicare

Physician's Weekly

When Alyne Diamond fell off a horse in August 2023 and broke her back, her employer-based health plan through UnitedHealthcare covered her emergency care in Aspen, Colorado. It also covered related pain management and physical therapy after she returned home to New York City. The bills totaled more than $100,000.

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A prophylactic treatment for hemophilia that you should know about

PEMBlog

Rather, it can change the bleeding phenotype from severe hemophilia to mild hemophilia – thus potentially reducing the risk of complications. An increasing number of children and adolescents with hemophilia A are on Hemlibra, and therefor the purpose of this post is to educate and raise awareness. Epub 2023 Jan 16.

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A Podcast on Inhalant Misuse: From Glue to Galaxy Gas

PEMBlog

Clin Toxicol (Phila) 2023; 61:453. Further complicating matters is that each inhalant has its own special risks. So pediatricians, Educators and parents all play a crucial role in prevention. Students should be educated about the dangers of inhalants. Updated February 26, 2024. Accessed January 13, 2025. Intelligencer.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

GeriPal

2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38129210. Kleinman, A. The illness narratives suffering, healing, and the human condition. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) â„¢.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program. He’s the founder and leader of the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless program in Toronto, Palliative care physician at St. Naheed 07:33 Yeah.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. And in fact, after a complicated ethics issue, we will oftentimes go in and try and debrief them. It happened to my mother. Louise, what happened to your mom? This shouldn’t have happened.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

The pneumonia could get treated, but I think geriatricians, actually, were well aware of iatrogenic complications of care and quality gaps, even well before the IOM reports of the late 1990s and the like. And then, it did, finally, come to an end, but the hospital-at-home community was able to educate policymakers. Eric: I love that.

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