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Book Review: Has Medicine Lost Its Mind? by Dr. Robert C. Smith

Common Sense Family Doctor

Smith, a general internist and professor of medicine and psychiatry at Michigan State University, explains why our medical system consistently prioritizes physical over emotional health and presents some ambitious proposals for how to rectify this harmful disparity. This relatively slim volume is divided into three parts.

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

GeriPal

As you know, our population is aging at a rapid speed and older, adult older persons is no longer cared for only by a geriatrician or a primary care physician. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. Devika: That’s right.

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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

2) iDoc24 The award-winning dermatology service is present in more than 160 countries and is available in 7 languages. In the continent-sized country, approximately 11,000 skin care specialists are working, which means less than one dermatologist for 100,000 people. Cureskin aims to help alleviate the situation.

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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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A Case of HPV / Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Oropharynx as Seen from a CBCT

CDOCS

With more than 13,000 new diagnoses of throat cancer each year in the US, the disease has surpassed cervical cancer as the most common cancer with HPV.</p> </p> <p>A 46-year-old male patient of mine presented to the clinic with chronic sore throat. He hadn&rsquo;t felt well for a while.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

You present your. So even partnering with that, making sure that you have resources that are available to partner with folks who are experts, let’s say in hormone therapy, some of our endocrinologists, some of our primary care physicians, they might come to you, let’s say, for a geriatric consultation and memory loss.

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Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry

GeriPal

As you know, our population is aging at a rapid speed and older, adult older persons is no longer cared for only by a geriatrician or a primary care physician. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. Devika: That’s right.