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He was a few years shy of middle-age and appeared to be in good physical shape. Between coughs, he managed to give me a faint smile. Even without doing my physical exam, I suspected he might be suffering from a community-acquired pneumonia. Sir," I said, touching his shoulder, "I'm going to perform a physical exam now."

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

The intervention involved mailing medication-specific brochures to patients before their primary care appointments (click here for the brochure ). Within the VA , there’s a program called Whole Health, which is really about trying to engage patients in many different modalities for pain management and just self care.

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Is It Hormones or Just Stress? How to Tell the Difference

Dr. Michael Bazel

Also Read: Low Testosterone in Men: Signs, Causes, and Treatment Options How Stress Manifests Physically and Emotionally Stress is a natural response to pressure, danger, or significant life changes. Help is just one appointment away. While short-term stress can motivate you to take action, long-term stress can damage your health.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. How much of your training was focused on managing substance use disorder training and palliative care? How do you actually physically find them if that’s the case? We have world class primary care, cancer care, palliative care.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

So if you haven’t been to this event, there is a literature review where we. Ken 12:14 I’ll remind you, Nancy, that this is an honor for companies that manage to make lots of money despite having a product that’s worthless or doesn’t. So Annie Since I was appointed timekeeper. It’s okay.

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Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry

GeriPal

On today today’s podcast, we are joined by guest host and UCSF geriatrician Ashwin Kotwal as we welcome Dr. Tisamarie Sherry (Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Behavioral Health, Disability, and Aging Policy (BHDAP) , appointed by the Biden administration). difficile infections.

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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

GeriPal

Well, there’s this descriptive phase where there’s a verbal and physical examination and the conditions discussed, and then, procedures are discussed. But I think it’s artificial, as we’ve already shown in this conversation, to talk about that as a isolated event.

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