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Is a Medical Office Assistant Career Right for You?

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

Exploring a Medical Office Assistant Career Are you looking for a stable, rewarding career in the healthcare field that doesn’t require a degree? Medical office assistants are a crucial part of any healthcare team. As a medical office assistant, some of your day-to-day responsibilities may include: Greeting and checking in patients.

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

The California-based firm, Second Sight , the German company, Retina Implant AG, and the French venture, Pixium Vision were the forerunners of the field, developing implantable visual prosthetics to restore vision to patients who are blind as a result of the rare condition of retinitis pigmentosa.

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Is DCIS Cancer or Not?

AMMD

Now, roughly 9% of breast cancer diagnoses are in women under age 45 with this percentage continually rising(1). This is why conventional physicians treat DCIS in patients with surgery, radiation, and sometimes chemotherapy. There are also the luminal epithelial cells closest to the center.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

Her most recent book is Dementia Friendly Communities: why we need them and how we can create them . Her most recent book is Creative Care: a revolutionary approach to dementia and elder care . She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief.

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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

GeriPal

But oftentimes, a therapist has deeper training and really history of trauma and specific diagnoses, versus a coach may be a little bit more future-focused and really works with people, regardless of whether they’re having any diagnosable challenge at the moment. Eric: Vicky, anything you’d add to that? Beth: Yeah.

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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. But watch out! Travel time can leave this champ vulnerable to fatigue and no-shows.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

Rethinking Automation and Inequity in Healthcare [link] [link] [link] MD Calc approach to inclusion of race [link] —— Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. My worry though with that is that are we going to be expected to be more productive then, to see more patients? This is Eric Widera. Charlotta: Thank you.

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