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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

There are widely varying figures, ranging from 66% to 90% depending on the source of information.) As, based on the results of my whole genome sequencing , I have a moderate risk for melanoma, a reliable and easily accessible source of information could be incredibly useful for me, too, thus I tried to find the best tools possible.

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

Doctor On Demand

In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. However, there are “Red Flag” symptoms that require urgent evaluation and management.

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

GeriPal

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information. Jessie: Thank you.

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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. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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

GeriPal

If you own and operate a nursing home and you’re taking people in, and you’re admitting new residents, what’s their accountability for how they manage compensation and quality delivery? It’s also what are the pieces of information we’re bringing to the table when we start providing care for residents?

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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. I am not a music therapist. And we’re. We’re sort of.

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

GeriPal

And I would say we weren’t doing training on symptom management, for example. And then there was a lot of stuff on coping and symptom management. But we do have the information about referrals to other ancillary providers as part of that multidisciplinary team. Lynn 15:55 Well, it’s a good. And well skilled.