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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

The second piece is getting folks to be successful at restricting their calories, which works well when nutrition education and behavioral counseling strategies are combined—and even better when provided in a group setting. Many older adults may have limited access to training facilities or experience with resistance training.

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Helium-Filled Dreams

StorytellERdoc

Over my numerous years as an ER doctor, I have met people that I never would have had the fortune, or misfortune (as some would say), to otherwise meet. My thoughts immediately went to my sister, Susie, who has had a long and fulfilling career as a Special Education Teacher. Michael continued this path. He was homeless.

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Advanced Imaging of Children in the ED: Ultrasound, CT, and MRI

PEMBlog

We know that nine out of ten children that go to the ER do not go to children’s hospital ERs. We really do have so many resources at our disposal, and it is very hard for them to know everything about kids and adults while practicing in locations where they don’t have these consultants available 24/7.

Families 101
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Plastic Surgery Intern Year: Catching up on 6 months of Updates

Aspiring Minority Doctor

I'm not going to lie, after two years of working in the urgent care setting, being in the ER was super chill for me. During my last official update, I had just finished my Mohs and Surgical Dermatology month in November and was headed into Emergency Medicine for December.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

I think that study was really important, especially I think the message that I give people is you can do something as simple as calling a consultation and improve quality of life months later. You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. So that’s great. Corita 04:32 Yep. Absolutely.

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Post-call-trauma

Blood, Sweat, and Tears

When I come across arrogant GPs and medical professionals, I wonder how they would handle the stress of a full NICU/PICU/ER/Casualty. When I come across difficult consultants, I always wonder what kind of registrar they were. I myself, have been in similar situations.

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

GeriPal

He uses comics and other artwork to share his experiences in palliative care and educate others about topics like empathy and communication skills. And a doc over in Spain named Monica Lalanda, who is an ER doc and also a cartoonist, reached out to me and said you don’t have to do this anonymously. Did they ask for a consult?”

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