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Why Identifying and Managing Giant Cell Arteritis as an Emergency Is Crucial

Physician's Weekly

And that said, the diagnostic yield doesn’t vanish after a steroid initiation, so you can still get a temporal art biopsy, and that can be positive up to two weeks following steroid therapy and ultrasound To diagnose a patient can be positive for up to three to five days after therapy. So really diagnosis matters a lot.

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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

GeriPal

Alex 02:20 (singing) “ Well, you wake up in the morning you hear the church bell ring and they march you to the table to see the same old thing ain’t no food upon the table ain’t no pork up in the pan but you better not complain boy, you get in trouble with a man let the midnight special shine a light on me. Is it just loss of.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. Eric 25:08 Super special. Someone’s function in the future can depend on, like, a crisis event, like a fall and a hip fracture. Eric 00:09 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric W id era.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

A physician actually ended up in status epilepticus, like in the ICU with event like almost dead from seizures as a result of sleep deprivation and overwork. I assume most of you in here are not super specialized doing lung transplants and needing a helipad and tertiary-care hospital. Say I’m having a special.

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