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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. Why was I spending all this time figuring out the detailed differential diagnosis of these obscure diseases when we weren’t actually attending to what people really needed? HPV vaccine.

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A Vitamin K Deficient Bleeding AKA Hemorrhagic disease of the newborn podcast

PEMBlog

Updated 2023 Jun 26]. They perceive that the intramuscular vitamin k is a vaccine. Furthermore, parents who refuse IM vitamin k tend to refuse other preventative measures, including the Hep B vaccine at birth, prophylaxis against gonococcal ophthalmia, which is really bad, and subsequent routine vaccination.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

The other way to think about who’s eligible… I talked about coming at this from a diagnosis point of view, people with certain conditions that you need to be hospitalized for. Go back in your mind, November of 2020, COVID is at its peak, we don’t have vaccines quite yet. That started in November of 2020.

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