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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

During these regular appointments, doctors conduct various tests and screenings to catch issues early. No more googling "ER near me" in a panic; you can get quick and competent care at an urgent care center. Patients can receive consultations, diagnosis, and treatment without needing an overnight stay.

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

GeriPal

I’m going to share my screen and we can talk about that. And I’m just going to explain it to our listeners, what I’m seeing on my screen. 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.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

Her name is Emily Groopman, and she’s a current resident at Children’s National Hospital. Now, newborn screening, or NBS, includes testing newly born infants for certain IEMs. So, again, to reinforce, since IEMs have very specific non specific presentations, the goal in the ER is not to specifically diagnose the IEM.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. Sam, my fellow, and I took the elevator upstairs to the hospital’s top floor.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

Alex: Yeah, we talk a lot about de-skilling in geriatrics and palliative care, because so much of what we do is a consultant role. At the Mayo clinic, for example, they’ve got a very robust hospital at home program. I think a lot of back office function, predicting ER loads and OR loads to do better scheduling of staff.

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