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Causes of Brain Fog & How to Get Rid of It

AMMD

These include our physical environment, jobs, relationships, traffic, and unexpected events. Brain fog can also be a temporary problem if you are on a specialized high-fat diet such as the keto diet as your body shifts to ketosis. I battled thyroid disease in medical school after being diagnosed with Graves’ disease.

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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

GeriPal

But oftentimes, a therapist has deeper training and really history of trauma and specific diagnoses, versus a coach may be a little bit more future-focused and really works with people, regardless of whether they’re having any diagnosable challenge at the moment. We’re doing a lot of interactive relationship building.

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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

Your ongoing appointments help foster a strong patient-doctor relationship , making it easier to discuss your concerns and receive personalized care. Do you prefer a full-service medical center or a walk-in clinic? Building a relationship with your primary care doctor should be a priority.

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

GeriPal

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. Because I think we have someone special, a guest host.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families.

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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

GeriPal

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Eduardo Bruera has no relationships to disclose. He’s chair of the department of Palliative Rehabilitation and Integrative Medicine at MD Anderson Cancer center. But the patient would say, well, but it still hurts, though. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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Avoiding the Uncanny Valley in Serious Illness Communication: Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

Have you ever had that moment when talking to a patient, when you realized that the phrase you just uttered, which you’ve uttered a hundred times before, came out rote and scripted? And in response, the family or patient looked at you like you were from another planet? Summary Transcript Summary. Yeah, I’ve been there too.

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