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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. Why was I spending all this time figuring out the detailed differential diagnosis of these obscure diseases when we weren’t actually attending to what people really needed?

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

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Lucky, Jim and many others like him were willing to come on to our podcast those first several months of the pandemic and share their experiences and lessons learned caring for COVID positive patients and their family members. . So these people had been quarantined and kept in these adult family homes where they couldn’t get exposed.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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But as we talked to patients and providers, there was, really, this need for patients who wanted services, like IV antibiotics and IV fluids, but wanted to be able to spend that time at home, with their family, even if it meant it was their last days or weeks. Bruce: This is, Ghostbusters, basically, a ham radio. Eric: Yeah.

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Whoop! There It Is: A Pertinent Pediatric Pertussis Podcast

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In this episode of PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast , we explore pertussis, also known as whooping cough – a disease that remains a public health challenge despite widespread vaccination efforts. Pertussis infection in infants and children: Clinical features and diagnosis. link] UpToDate Yeh S et al.

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