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Understanding Heat Stroke: Symptoms and Essential Solutions

Doctor On Demand

Familiarizing yourself with heat stroke symptoms and exploring various solutions, including the option of consulting an online doctor , can prove pivotal in averting severe consequences. Medical Consultation : If symptoms persist or worsen, seeking medical attention becomes paramount. Urgent care for every day life.

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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

Dr. Jordan then questions the utility and continued operation of methadone clinics, especially as the United States largely moves on from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. So, the docs actually wrote orders for tests, medications, consults. Eric: VA people will know what that is. David: Yeah.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

And so we do have consultants who come in the building. Connie 13:10 So generally what, what I see, very rural, is a nurse practitioner that’s out of our local home health and hospice agency that is palliative care certified. And usually it’s simply for a consultation. So that part we know and I. Is that a black box?

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

GeriPal

We covered some of our questions on the podcast, others you can ponder on your own or in your journal clubs, including: Maries tele/video palliative care intervention was tailored/refined with the help of a community advisory board. Who would/should be on that board? You did a rural tele-palliative care consultation study.

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

GeriPal

Then wages and benefits, so ensuring competitive wages and benefits for the nursing home workforce, empowering the certified nursing assistant, increasing and improving recruitment and retention of the workforce. Of course, we acknowledge that there needs to be more pay, better pay and better benefits across the board.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

We were the highest utilizers of telemedicine in the whole UCSF health system at that time which we’re very proud of. But in California where I practice medical aid and dying is legal and similar to other issues that are controversial in some places, many physicians do not prescribe or do visits for medical aid and dying consultations.