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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

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So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? But these tests were never designed to diagnose. I just had lab tests done.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

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They look at the signs and symptoms, they do a physical exam, maybe some lab tests or some imaging. And if the doctors still come up with different diagnoses or perceptions of what’s happening with the patient and or treatment plans, that’s all on them. Try to really understand what’s happening.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

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But we all know that our health system, the way that it treats symptoms that it can see, that it can diagnose, that it can get a lab test for, an imaging test for the services that we can provide that person is just so much different than the services we provide someone who doesn’t check any of those boxes.