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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. Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. Both conditions can present with similar symptoms.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

And I’ve been to some presentations that use that same breaking bad news model for having these driving conversations, as are used in palliative care. Then I would say any clear deficits in thinking, vision, physical mobility, big new diagnoses, those; certainly cognitive changes, because that’s a really big one in terms of risk.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa Offers Next Level Care

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

The practice doesn't depend on the insurance company to say whether they will pay for a certain procedure or a particular test, and how much. With the direct primary care model, your insurance is used for what it is intended to cover: catastrophic health events, hospitalizations, specialist care, imaging, and surgery.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff.

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Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

GeriPal

Areej 03:50 So at the state of the science, I was actually presenting a study that was focused on addressing sexual health concerns in transplant survivors, and I actually told the story of the state of the science for those of you who were there. So we got a lot to cover on sexuality, sexual health, and serious illness.

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