GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

If somebody has cancer and they’re recently diagnosed, somebody has cancer and they’re undergoing active treatment, somebody has cancer and they’re in early remission, now they’re a year or two years, three years, four years out and they still have pain. Jessie: Yes. Why would that be? And then, looking at- Eric: Wow.

Illness 137

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

How should I define cachexia and anorexia when I’m talking to fellow students or thinking about it in my own clinical practice? I think the very simple, practical thing is involuntary weight loss. We have an epidemic of BMI and therefore never use the way the patient looks like to diagnose cachexia.

Illness 134

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 134

GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

You can easily have fibrinoid necrosis of your kidneys and not have hypertension, but the pathology of hypertension is most commonly associated with fibrinoid necrosis. Jason: You could have hypertension and have no signs and symptoms. So too systolic hypertension in elderly people, clinical trials. You can see it.

IT 117

IT Clinic Illness Hypertension 117