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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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ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Why would CBT work for neuropathic pain and diabetes differently than it would work for neuropathic pain and cancer? So, among folks ever diagnosed with head and neck cancers, prevalence of substance use disorders was 9%. Jessie: Yes. Why would that be?

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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

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ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. We have an epidemic of BMI and therefore never use the way the patient looks like to diagnose cachexia. So cachexia, I would put it involuntary weight loss is the number one way to diagnose it. It can be quite problematic in people with diabetes and so on.

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