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Have Job-Based Health Coverage at 65? You May Still Want To Sign Up for Medicare

Physician's Weekly

More than a year after her riding accident, Diamond was back at the emergency room after she tripped on a step while entering a New York restaurant. In those instances, Medicare pays first if they or their family member works at a company with fewer than 100 employees. The bill for that care: $12,000.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. Well, because they’re hard on people with dementia and they can be very hard on families, and they’re a form of crisis. Is that right, Soo? Soo 00:32 Thanks.

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5 Baby Safety Tips from a Family Physician and Mom

Vida Family Medicine

Try to get as much rest as you can and have your partner or other family members help with infant care during the day and overnight. If you are feeling this way, put your child down in a safe place and have your partner or a friend or family member take care of your child while you take a break to rest.

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

GeriPal

I’ve seen patients post transplant when they start having complications. They are complicated. They’re complicated from a symptom standpoint. And so I honestly think it has to do with how complex the diseases and the complications that come from it. Amy 12:23 I find this one. What’s the goal?

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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

GeriPal

And, what if your surgeon openly discussed the expected ‘bad stuff’ of post-operative recovery, instead of rotely reciting a list of possible complications? What I need to navigate with that patient and their family, is it valuable to you? ” And he says, “It’s in the emergency room.” Every time.

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

The songs about how saving lives is actually a pretty complicated business. And that’s the complication here is there’s so many things that the staff can be trained on. A lot of assisted livings, it’s acted like it’s not even a choice, that it’s usually the default is you go to the emergency room.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

I am part of some other work in the ICU world looking at time-limited trials and trying to better define what those are, how we talk about them, how we talk about them with patients and families. Emergency rooms. Eric: To all of our emergency medicine colleagues, saved the best for the last. Eric: Okay. Corita: Yes.