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Telemedicine vs. In-Person Care: Choosing the Best Option for Your Health

Edge Family Medicine

When to Choose Telemedicine Routine follow-ups for chronic conditions like hypertension, diabetes, or asthma. Mental health consultations , including therapy and psychiatry. Effective Follow-Ups – Great for medication adjustments, test results, and chronic disease management. Medication refills or adjustments.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

And so there’s one study that used Medicare beneficiary data, and when they look at diagnoses for transgender men and women compared to cisgender men and women, we see around one in five have a diagnosis of dementia in the medical record for the transgender community compared to around, like, 1 in 7, 1 in 8 versus gender people.

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

GeriPal

Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain. Why would that be? What would the biologic mechanism be that would make that different? Katie: Yeah.

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Is Candida a Sexually Transmitted Disease? The Truth About Transmission

AMMD

Factors that can wear out your immune system include poor gut health and stress. Diabetes or an autoimmune condition can also leave you more vulnerable to infection. It can also affect your mood and mental clarity. Preventing Candida Overgrowth and Transmission Candida is a growing health concern.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

And now what we have all been waiting for, our keynote speaker on today’s theme of mental health. I think it’s a label that people turn to because of mental health stigma. Has anyone noticed that we have sort of a global mental health problem in the world right now? I give you Dr. Pamela Wible.

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