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Maternity Care: Why It’s Important and Where You Can Get It

Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

Carrying a child comes with complications sometimes, but with the help of maternity care, you are more likely to stay well during your pregnancy. For example, some women don’t have insurance, and some women don’t have access to transportation. What Services Do We Offer?

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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

GeriPal

But I think where it ends up causing problems is just if they’re going to have many sessions, transport to and from, and just the overall cost that can be essentially not feasible for the hospice. I know, I’m sure it depends with insurance and where you are. Like, what should they be expecting in that respect?

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. But I think then the other factor in this that makes it complicated is the decision for someone in Manhattan might be very different than the decision for someone in, like, rural Wyoming. Emmy: Yeah.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

The pneumonia could get treated, but I think geriatricians, actually, were well aware of iatrogenic complications of care and quality gaps, even well before the IOM reports of the late 1990s and the like. If someone needs imaging, if someone needs an MR, or CT, you bring them back to the hospital, so there’s some transport costs there.

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