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

Doctor On Demand

Virtual visits can diagnose colds, flu , or allergies and help you manage symptoms at home. How Doctor On Demand can help with chest congestion right now If you’re experiencing chest congestion and need answers immediately, start a virtual visit with a board-certified healthcare provider today with Doctor On Demand.

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Why Regular Check-ups Matter: Preventive Care at Mesa Family Physicians

Mesa Family Physician

During your comprehensive check-up at our Mesa clinic, our board-certified physicians will not only assess your current health status but also help you understand your risk factors for various conditions based on your family history, lifestyle, and previous medical records. We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all medicine.

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

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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. Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose.

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

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Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. In their communities?

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

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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. And I would say we weren’t doing training on symptom management, for example.

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

GeriPal

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. 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. I am not a music therapist. And we’re.

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

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nursing homes grapple with serious illnesses, and roughly half experience dementia. The reason that you’re in a nursing home is because you have some mix of serious illness and multimorbidity, usually functional impairments. And so I tried to get her actually to pain management, and I couldn’t. Cognitive impairment.