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Endocrinology Near Me: Finding the Best Hormone Specialists in Connecticut

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

At PACT Endocrinology, a referral isn’t required. You can schedule a consultation if you want personalized care for conditions like diabetes, thyroid disorders, adrenal disorders, bone health issues and more. What Conditions Do Endocrinologists Treat? There are a wide range of diseases and disorders of the endocrine system.

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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

GeriPal

We also talk about the importance of a proactive approach to involving speech-language pathologists in the care of individuals early on with neurodegenerative diseases like dementia and ALS. So as you mentioned, dementia, there’s some research that show about 86% or 93% of those individuals will get that. Raele: Yes, of course.

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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

GeriPal

And so there was a report in 2009 by the Institute of Medicine saying that we need to equip all of these individuals in caring for older person in an evidence based manner. And so to develop that equation, they use the cohort of individuals and their data, their blood samples, creatine and other physical attributes. Devika: Thank You.

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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

GeriPal

Alex: We’re delighted to also welcome Greg Pawlson, who’s Senior Faculty at Lodestar Consulting & Executive Coaching and former President of the American Geriatric Society. We make a diagnosis. Second thing to say is that I think referrals are really important. I have hired coaches based on referrals.

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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

GeriPal

Should eligibility and access be determined by clinician referral? By diagnosis? If we move away from clinician referrals as the means by which people get access, how do we keep the clinicians engaged, and not enraged? I have never myself called a palliative care consult as a trainee because we didn’t have one.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Consultations versus telehealth. We would make referrals to psycho oncology.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Which brings us to an article. Katie: Yeah.

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