PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Special thanks to Dr. Stephen Freedman, from the University of Calgary, for reviewing this post as well – he brought some practical feedback to the table. The diagnosis of constipation should be made based on a good history and clinical exam. Use of abdominal radiographs has been associated with increased diagnostic errors.

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Diagnosis Diagnose Hospital Clinic 122

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

And so certainly from a family’s perspective, a family caregiver perspective, the last thing we want to have when it comes to good dementia care is a diagnose and audio scenario, or in this case, some type of screening result, and then we’ll see you again in six months. It can’t be diagnosed and adios.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as: Who should get specialized palliative care? By diagnosis? We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. By prognosis? Thank you, Eric.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

My special guest podcaster, Emily Groopman, is an actual Pediatric Geneticist in training and we hope that you will find this episode useful. She did her MD/PhD at Columbia University, where she investigated the diagnostic utility of exome sequencing for kidney disease. Inborn errors of metabolism in infancy: a guide to diagnosis.

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Consulting Individual Families Family 59

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

We got some really special guests with us. And I remember being there and there was a patient who had seen inpatient and then subsequently outpatient who was so thankful in the weirdest in just this irrational way for having been diagnosed with liver cancer. And sometimes you can make a use disorder of diagnosis in hindsight.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. Eric: Alex, we have a super special today. We’ve got a hospice super special. Alex: We have a hospice super special day. People across all diagnoses want hospice care.

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Families Family IT Patients 106

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And we’ll tell you the scope of practice, and this is top of license, and this is how you can best utilize a social worker and, no, actually that skillset belongs over here.” What does this diagnosis mean to you? And then my mom was diagnosed with lung cancer and she was treated there. And you feed the medicine in.

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IT Families Family Clinic 102