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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

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But more importantly, when I looked at your appendix, Dr. Rosielle the Institute of Safe Medication Practices says, you should never have order sets or charts or anything where one drug name is very close in proximity to another drug name, particularly if they sound alike. You take their age, their gender, you take their chronic conditions.

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

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In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to postpone medical appointments until something feels wrong. However, at Mesa Family Physicians , we believe that preventive healthcare is the cornerstone of long-term wellness for our Mesa, Arizona community.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

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And so when I had decided to socially, medically, and surgically transition, I had to really sit down with members of the department and really did a lot of in services. You present your. What does that mean for dealing with chronic conditions and syndromes of aging, their health, does it have an impact? Just how you.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

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Summary Transcript CME Summary When treating heart failure, how do we distinguish between the expanding list of medications recommended for “Guideline Directed Medical Therapy” (GDMT) and what might be considered runaway polypharmacy? He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

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Not just with our aging and independent services, but also with our behavioral health services, with our public health services, with our medical care services, to really have everyone see older people as part of their work. 60% of all medical costs have nothing to do with your health diagnosis.

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

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And I graduated from medical school in the early 80s. And I was working at the time at Yale in New Haven, and I became medical director of a facility which was initially created in New Haven as a hospice like facility for people with HIV, which is in late 1995 and in 1996 when the Protease inhibitors came along. Meredith 09:33 Yes.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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But also there’s also, because many more people… Oftentimes, when I’ll be at a meeting, if I’m presenting, I’ll ask for show of hands how many people have had experience with dementia. But for other- Diane: And it’s on the medical side. Malaz: … they have to do medication management.