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

Physician's Weekly

It also covered related pain management and physical therapy after she returned home to New York City. Had she signed up for the government insurance plan when she turned 65, Diamond could have avoided a financially perilous situation that left her unexpectedly responsible for the medical costs she incurred during that time. .”

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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

33 Charts

It’s the physics of physician bandwidth: You can’t add something without taking something away. A few ideas: Stronger technology governance of MyChart messages We want to call the MyChart mushroom an Epic problem. The problem is that doctors work in what I call a zero-sum medical day. How do we fix this? Pretty simple.

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

GeriPal

But the thing that really motivates me is seeing, you know, and trying to manage later stage, you know, we can call them complications of people who haven’t had a diagnosis are now really in, you know, a world of complexity around other conditions, around managing life and managing practical things. Ana chodos, what should I be?

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Rewiring the body clock: Deep brain imaging reveals unexpected complexity in jet lag adjustment

Medical Xpress

This achievement is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers in life science, physics, and computer science. This region governs essential behaviors like the circadian clock, sleep, energy balance , and feeding. But what we observed was much more complicated."

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NIH to Fund $10M in Long-Term Health Studies After Ohio Train Disaster

Physician's Weekly

Residents of East Palestine, Ohio, where the derailment occurred, have pressed the government to do more to answer questions about the mental and physical health effects of the disaster — from post-traumatic stress to cancer. She called the NIH news “a complicated mix of emotions,” CNN said. “We

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Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry

GeriPal

For the policy buffs and policy newbies out there, we hope this podcast is an essential primer to government in action. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. It’s another article, another major article that has triggered the complicated UTI circuit.

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When do we learn to treat our doctors properly?

Tiny Physician

Postpartum hemorrhage is an unfortunate and well-known complication of delivery. Damage The plaintiff must be able to prove that he/she suffered harm because of the treatment which can be physical, financial, or mental. treatment at government hospitals when they or their relatives get admitted.