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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. uh, ill defined epigastric or chest pain, and it’s often worse by eating or lying down after meals. Now, in the pediatric emergency department, the diagnosis of reflux is primarily clinical.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I. Fifty percent have a diagnosis in their record of decedents have dementia. Joel: Yeah. Eric: Yeah. What did you find in the JAGS paper, Samir?

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. But now we have older people dying of older people illnesses. So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. Michele: Yep.

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