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How Your Emotional Health Impacts Blood Pressure

Imperial Center Family Medicine

Being aware of this intricate relationship is the first step to learning to control your emotions to improve heart health. It’s similar to revving a car engine for too long while staying still. People with clinical depression often have elevated cortisol levels, potentially leading to high blood pressure over time.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

When I started over 20 years ago, saw babies being born, used to do circumcisions in clinics, and then taking care of patients as they got more mature in their life, so to speak, and really loved that. Patients nowadays have evolved, so our ability to build and engineer AI systems to help people help themselves is going to be the future.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? Lastly, I also just want to give a shout out to the last article above which also includes this lovely checklist of methods to address hearing loss in clinical encounters. I’m guessing not. Transcript.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

Alex: And joining us via Zoom, we have Charlotta Lindvall, who is a palliative care physician researcher who studies the intersection of natural language processing and communication data at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, where she also works in clinical informatics. Is there a true relationship with that? Charlotta: Thank you.

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

GeriPal

We learned this and much more, and I had a great time making engine noises singing the Woody Guthrie song “driving in my car.” . I don’t practice clinically in outpatient settings, and often the folks I’m seeing are there for other kinds of issues. Additional Links: (A to Z – under driving). OT programs). Eric: Yeah.

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Coping with Serious Illness: Danielle Chammas and Amanda Moment

GeriPal

The clinical trials and the this and that. Potentially harmful elements of that coping mechanism for your relationship with your four year old. Well, maybe they’re an engineer and understanding makes them feel rooted. What are you seeing in terms of the relationship between this patient and their family?

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Public Facing Education via Social Media: A Podcast with Julie McFadden, Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow

GeriPal

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow have no relationships to disclose. Julie McFadden discloses an employee relationship started on 15Apr2024. But it’s the people in the relationships that you meet. Hsien, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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