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Migraine headaches: diagnostic and treatment tips

Common Sense Family Doctor

The POUND mnemonic (ie, pulsatile quality, one-day duration, unilateral headache, nausea or vomiting, disabling intensity) can help clinicians make the diagnosis of migraine in primary care, and the Migraine Disability Assessment (MIDAS) quantifies headache severity.

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Two “Unresolvable” Prescribing/Dispensing Red Flags Unfurled

FDA Law Blog

DEAs position is contrary to statements made in the agencys 2024 Coconut Grove decision when its expert opined at the hearing that filling immediate-release opioids prescribed and dispensed over a period of one and a half to two years presented red flags and [the pharmacy] needed to properly resolve these red flags before dispensing.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Alex 13:24 Eric is pushing on the like, the clinical, practical stuff. Now, again, in the context of a busy clinical visit, you may not have the time to really go through it in detail. Eric 25:00 What do you do in clinical practice, Alison?

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. The question I would ask is, how helpful is that in our clinical practice? If they’ve said they had a traumatic experience receiving a diagnosis. And so in terms of, am I looking to put a DSM diagnosis to someone? I wonder why?

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Anne: Which episode of the GeriPal podcast has most significantly changed your clinical practice? It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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

GeriPal

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

This is just because this arose organically in clinical practice as a way of balancing these underlying competing ethical issues. Just got the diagnosis based on blood tests of amyloid. Then just got the diagnosis. And also I’d rather know that I myself not going to be super thirsty. Alex 17:35 Can I interject here?

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