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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

During these regular appointments, doctors conduct various tests and screenings to catch issues early. No more googling "ER near me" in a panic; you can get quick and competent care at an urgent care center. Patients can receive consultations, diagnosis, and treatment without needing an overnight stay.

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

We then walk through how we should screen for anxiety and how we should think about a differential. If they’ve said they had a traumatic experience receiving a diagnosis. And so in terms of, am I looking to put a DSM diagnosis to someone? What would be the benefit to myself, or hopefully for them to add a DSM diagnosis?

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

The ability to appreciate, recognize, and engage with music is preserved even until late stages of dementia, and Theresa is examining how music can be useful from the time of diagnosis, not only for the person with dementia, but their caregivers. I’m originally an ER physician. You might see me on the TV screens next year.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

She is a member of the Clinical Genome Resource Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) Clinical Domain Working Group, where as a biocurator she assesses the pathogenicity of variants in IEM-associated genes to facilitate expedited genetic diagnosis for IEMs. Inborn errors of metabolism in infancy: a guide to diagnosis. Pediatr Rev.

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

GeriPal

For the foreseeable future, it’s going to be right 90%, 95%, 85%, so the safety system, of course, will be, the AI says something, makes a recommendation or gives you a draft diagnosis or drafts your note, and then, the failsafe is, the doctor reads it over. I’m connecting. This is GPT-4. “Hi, GPT-4.

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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

GeriPal

Darrell: And so I’d set up in conjunction with our emergency room team and our hospitalist, a 24/7 screening process for, at the time, anybody who’s over 65. The hospitalist didn’t want them screened, didn’t want to have any discussions with goals of care. The screening process is obviously shifted.