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Hormone virtual consultation for PCOS | Canadian women

Dr. Zaar

Fortunately, hormone virtual consultations for PCOS in women are now making expert care more accessible. What is virtual hormone consultation? A virtual hormone consultation combines patients with certified endocrinologists or hormone experts through safe videos or phone appointments. Why Virtual Care works for PCOS?

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Accessing Pediatric Endocrinology Online in Canada

Dr. Zaar

Shorter Wait Times: In-person referrals can come with frustratingly long waitlists. Comfort and Privacy Kids often feel more at ease discussing sensitive health issues from the comfort of their own home, which can lead to a more relaxed and productive consultation. Here’s why more families are opting for virtual care: 1.

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Understanding Growth Hormone Treatment via Online Care in Canada

Dr. Zaar

Online endocrinology services offer: Timely Consultations: Say goodbye to long waits for in-person referrals. Platforms like Maple, WELL Health, and various provincial telehealth programs—such as Telehealth Ontario and HealthLink BC—provide dependable online endocrinology services throughout Canada.

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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. Eric 01:08 On the other, we have the young upstart telehealth delivered palliative care.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. And so we do have consultants who come in the building.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. Caroline: I’ve had a lot of n of one experiences, or just clinical experience one on one, where I’ve had to, as the geropsych consultant, encourage families and providers to stop the feeding tube.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

This DEA is taking 6-months to consider how to move forward vis a vis restrictions and requirements for telehealth in a post-pandemic world. So we’re going to be talking about telemedicine, telehealth for people with serious illness. Brooke: So I think of telehealth as the umbrella. Now is the time to act, dear listeners!