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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

I’m a dementia specialist, and so what I was experiencing was that many people were coming to see me to get a diagnosis of a very straightforward case of mild Alzheimer’s or moderate Alzheimer’s disease, whose doctors had told them there was nothing wrong with them or that their memory was better than my own, says the doctor.

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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

Urgent Care "Patient receiving urgent care treatment" Urgent care centers fill the gap between your primary care doctor and the emergency room. Whether you have a sprain, minor fracture, or a cut that needs stitches, these facilities offer immediate care without the long wait times typically associated with emergency rooms.

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

GeriPal

And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. Like, with a cancer diagnosis, there’s relatively a smooth, smooth prognosis. Is that, and we try to use, often use the term prognostic humility, that unlike more than any other diagnosis, really, we truly need to be humble, right. We’re talking about liver.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

Haider: Yeah, this is a special song. I was helped into a wheelchair kind of rushed to the emergency room, which was not far away because I was on the medical school campus. Haider: Well, first he would never die without a diagnosis. We’re going to be talking about pain and your book. I heard this loud click.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. He created fee for service, special fee for depression. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. But it was also later on in the disease. And I talked with Jürgen.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

We would find these people in the hospital, and we said, “What would you have thought if someone had come up to you in the emergency room yesterday, and said, ‘Hey, instead of going upstairs, you could go home.’ And then, the patient can bypass the emergency room entirely. And that’s more standard.

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

GeriPal

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back two very special guests who were with us early in the COVID pandemic, and really shown a light on what was happening for the rest of us who could see this giant wave coming, and were just thirsty for information and experiences from those people who were experiencing it early. This is Eric Widera.