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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

Joe 03:55 You know, my thoughts are screening is important for a variety of reasons, and certainly Doctor Boris and Soo and Anna, Doctor chodos can provide a lot greater clinical insight than I. What hasn’t been shown, Eric, is that if you apply tools like this, clinical outcomes down the road are better for patients.

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. Now, in the pediatric emergency department, the diagnosis of reflux is primarily clinical. Alright, let’s scope things out.

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

Nate also wrote a NEJM piece last year on Alzheimers Disease, Biomarkers, and mAbs What Does Primary Care Need? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Great to be back. Absolutely.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

I don’t practice clinically in outpatient settings, and often the folks I’m seeing are there for other kinds of issues. But then once it was open, started seeing a lot of other populations: not just our own hospital population, but a lot more just community members calling with concerns about driving. Eric: Yeah.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

And then from that, through community activists, ACT UP, legislators who felt that there needed to be something done, doctors within CDCR who cared passionately about the HIV population and others, all came together and we were able to eventually get funding for this 17-bed inpatient hospice. There are clinics.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

Samir: For me, it really came out of an interest in improving the care of patients who undergo surgery. So when I was a resident at Cleveland Clinic, I got to see really cutting-edge technology, some of the best surgeons in the country, and perhaps in the world, operating on patients. Eric: Mm-hmm. Eric: How about you, Samir?

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

GeriPal

And then second, I was someone who was a Parrot Head for years and years and it was just amazing how the community came together. That was really the theme song of how the community came together. John: I am what I am, which is a family practice doctor. Alex: That is not around the time of diagnosis. Is that right, Jane?

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