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Digestive Health: When To See Your Doctor About Chronic Gut Problems

Center for Family Medicine

Early evaluation prevents complications like malnutrition or aspiration. Untreated GERD can lead to complications such as esophagitis , Barrett's esophagus, or even esophageal cancer. Ignoring persistent digestive symptoms can lead to complications and make treatment more challenging.

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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

Likewise, the National Institute on Aging developed a toolkit to help promote safe, effective exercise techniques for old er adults. Social support from family and friends ensures the patient has a robust support system to continue engaging in lifestyle behavior change.

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Bedside manner

Blood, Sweat, and Tears

This means explaining the benefits, risks, complications and alternates of the procedure. The problem is patients don’t understand medical terms often and complicated procedures are often over simplified so everyone is on the same page. The family thanked him again and the boy left well. “Thanks. Pleasant suprise.

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The Most Engaging Decision You’ll Read All Year – Five Stars

FDA Law Blog

Let’s just say, the smackdown—er, decision—eviscerates FDA’s approach to regulating flavored e-cigarettes. This story goes back to the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which prohibits manufacturers from selling any “new tobacco product” without authorization from FDA.

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Corona Together

StorytellERdoc

Gone are the carefree smiles, the uncomplicated daily lives, and the thought that we and our families are immune to unexpected death. Friends and family have asked me my thoughts on Covid-19, maybe believing I have some special information simply from being on the front lines. We are all scared.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. And we got all into his family stuff and how he’d been suffering with cancer and his goal. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience.

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

How do you think about non pharmacological approaches, or maybe even in the people who just have a shorter, maybe less complicated anxiety, but it’s still impacting their sleep? And that was a common experience I had in my psychiatry training, was being called to the ER to see someone who’d come in with panic.

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