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How to Choose the Best Hormone Doctor in Connecticut for Your Needs

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

Here are some tips for choosing the best Connecticut-based hormone doctor for your unique needs. Ask for Recommendations When you’re looking for a hormone doctor, people you trust can provide valuable recommendations. Friends and family members who’ve seen a hormone doctor are another useful source of recommendations.

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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. Endoscopy, upper GI and endoscopy is the gold standard for diagnosing gastritis. Non invasive H. Non invasive H. pylori in the kid.

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

GeriPal

Emmy: Having said that, I think we need to recognize that the gold standard, thorough OT assessment is not a reality for a lot of people, because of there aren’t enough of them, because of insurance might not cover it, and so forth. Somebody who’s older, maybe just diagnosed them with very mild dementia. Emmy: Yeah.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

GeriPal

John: I am what I am, which is a family practice doctor. Whenever I take care of a patient, I see myself as a family practice doctor, but I’ve been a hospitalist, I’ve been a primary care doctor, and I’ve done palliative. How do you know someone’s going to die in six months anymore?

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

And the actors were blinded to whether this was a primary care doctor or a chat bot answering them. The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. They had no idea.

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