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When to Go to a Doctor for Chest Congestion: At-home Care vs. Medical Attention

Doctor On Demand

Questions for your appointment Write down questions for your doctor and check them off during your appointment. Ask the doctor what symptoms should trigger a follow-up appointment. If you happen to have a thermometer, pulse oximeter, and a list of recent temperatures or oxygen readings available, share those with your provider.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. So delivering those month visits in clinic, often in tandem with their other oncology appointments.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

So those types of relationships, clergy, non family members, we talk about, I think cohabitating unmarried couples. And then maybe indirectly, they’ll start to tell you, well, here are the people I rely on to take me to my appointments. Okay, so you said you wanted to stay living in your apartment for the next year.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

When you think about getting your groceries, going to doctor’s appointments, going to religious services, if that’s important to you. So we’re trying to help replace the transportation option. Because how that is approached can have lasting effects on relationships, unfortunately. Eric: Yeah.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose. So you don’t have to have the piece of paper that says, I appoint so-and-so only if you want to go outside the legal of the default characterizations, but you have to have a legal document.

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

GeriPal

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. So, if they have an alcohol use disorder and that’s really impairing their ability to make it to chemotherapy appointments or it’s causing them to have even more mucositis related pain, you need to know about that. Katie: Yep.

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