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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. Ab: I learn from them, and I tell sometimes the family members that the person with dementia, your loved one, is fine and you are replaying the event that happened a week ago and you’ve replayed that event 100 times and that’s causing a distress.

Community 101
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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. This measures both acid and non acid reflux events. Endoscopy, upper GI and endoscopy is the gold standard for diagnosing gastritis.

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Interdisciplinary Case Report

CDOCS

I diagnosed this case to be complex, requiring extensive bone regeneration, possibly with multiple grafts and informed this patient of the risks, timeline and complexity of his case. The Atlantis lab always includes an insertion jig with these kinds of abutments to make the insertion visit a non-event.

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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

GeriPal

And they should be forced by doing research, followed by translating research into practice and continued education of a wide variety of individuals to then care for our aging population. So people at kind of those extremes where I would potentially be really changing their diagnoses. difficile infections. Devika: That’s right.

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Middle to Older Age Latinas Experiences Across the Cervical Cancer Continuum: Screening, Diagnosis, Treatment and Impact [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Participants were recruited via electronic healthcare records, community tabling events, and social media efforts. Only a few received stage 1 diagnoses. Furthermore, the need for an intersectional lens is critical given that many women were also immigrant, Spanish speaking, and often from lower education and socio-economic status.

Diagnosis 130
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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

And so, unfortunately, I think for a while, this condition, for many people, isn’t diagnosed until you end up seeing a cardiologist or a heart failure doctor who’s really honed in on this to say, actually, this is a heart failure syndrome. Is your impression that HFpEFde is under diagnosed in older adults?

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Amyloid Antibodies and the Role of the Geriatrician: Nate Chin, Sharon Brangman, and Jason Karlawish

GeriPal

And we’ve been diagnosing it at Penn. I think the other issue as geriatricians and we need to educate our patients about is now you’re not on one, but six months later on this drug, you go on one. There’s a lot of stops along the way for education. Speaking to what Jason was talking about, education.