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RSV: Recognizing RSV Symptoms in Adults

Doctor On Demand

To start, you can schedule a video appointment with a board-certified doctor through the Doctor On Demand telehealth app or website. Based on this information, the doctor can provide a diagnosis, recommend treatment options, and even prescribe medications if necessary.

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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

Unlike urgent care, which is suited for non-life-threatening conditions, the ER is designed to provide immediate, high-level care for severe complications from a sore throat, such as difficulty breathing, inability to swallow, or signs of a serious infection. Weakened immune systems increase the risk of complications — seek care sooner.

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An Arm and a Leg: The Prescription Drug Playbook, Part I

Physician's Weekly

This is the kind of information we all need, all deserve. This is a, you know, board certified pediatric neurologist who’s been seeing this patient for years. To avoid shady internet stuff, a tool called Pharmacy Checker will steer you to ones that are above board. And maybe we can put a little dent in that.

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Episode 275: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 19 – Reframing the Opioid Epidemic: Anti-Racist Praxis, Racial Health Inequities, and Harm Reduction

The Clinical Problem Solvers

One example that is presented involves the complicated relationship between the United States and Chinese immigrants and farmworkers in California. Speaker Biographies Dr. Jessica Isom, MD, MPH, is a board-certified community psychiatrist and faculty leader in the Yale Department of Psychiatry’s Social Justice and Health Equity Curriculum.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. It used to be a much more complicated model. David: Right.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

We start each podcast with a song in part to shift the frame, taking people out of their academic selves and into a more informal conversation. I am not a board certified. I am not a certified music therapist. I let my boards lapse a few years ago. Relationships are usually more complicated.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? And I came to the now I think naive conclusion that fixing and avoiding complications was the secret. But they don’t really have a lot of condition-specific or procedure-specific information at all.