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How frustrating work environment affects empathy in resident doctors?

Tiny Physician

This may result in errors in the diagnosis of the patient whom the doctor was examining initially. Even though many medical colleges provide outpatient consultations to only referral cases, people come to the emergency department for minor ailments. patients show their frustration at doctors. What can we do to solve this problem?

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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

GeriPal

There’s a team now with them behind them making sure that they stay safe and held in our communities. How we came about to select these articles or to have interest in this topic is really older adults are unique population that are at risk for both over diagnosis of infections as well as under diagnosis of infections.

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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. uh, ill defined epigastric or chest pain, and it’s often worse by eating or lying down after meals. Now, in the pediatric emergency department, the diagnosis of reflux is primarily clinical.

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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

GeriPal

But estimates in community dwelling older adults are around 15%. So, if it’s a hospitalized patient, usually the referral will come through to the SLP service. We have patients who are acutely ill, pulmonary consequences can be really, really serious for a lot of our hospitalized patients.

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

GeriPal

Eric 00:27 So we’re going to be talking about making the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in a primary care setting, not specialty care, but maybe we could talk a little bit about that. How much should it change how we think about making a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in primary care? Great to be back. Absolutely.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

But in reality, given workforce shortages and just the challenges and the resources necessary to be able to provide early integrated palliative care from the time of diagnosis of advanced cancer, the model simply is not implementable, at least not in our current state with our available infrastructure and resources. What do we do with that?

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

GeriPal

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. 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: Well, Terri and Emmy, thank you for joining on this podcast. “Do you guys do this?”

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