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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

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This measures both acid and non acid reflux events. This is obviously ordered by a gastroenterologist, but But the probe itself measures reflux, and then the patient can press a button for an event monitor. Remember, our community pediatricians, family medicine doctors, are brilliant. They can handle this problem.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

So we take that science and we apply it to something that’s very messy and chaotic, like a human being or a community or a population. It was like kind of a co op with this common space that different groups could rent for events and meetings and things like that. I think it started off from a need, a hunger in the community.

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

GeriPal

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. It’s by choice, just like in the community. Michele: Thank you for having me.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

And we found out in our work that something like 70 or 80% of patients with dementia who have surgery come from the community, who are coming from home. Is there a role for the primary care doctor, for the anesthesiologist, for the consulting team, for … Eric: Integrative geriatrics. Alex: Mm-hmm.