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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. These services go beyond treating illnesses; they aim to keep you healthy in the first place. Your choice can impact how easily and quickly you can access care, particularly in non-emergency situations.

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

Nate also wrote a NEJM piece last year on Alzheimers Disease, Biomarkers, and mAbs What Does Primary Care Need? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? But we went from primary care to this. Great to be back.

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Should Palliative Care be in the Survivorship Business? A Podcast with Laura Petrillo, Laura Shoemaker

GeriPal

And I was curious to learn about how people were talking about what to expect after a diagnosis of advanced cancer, how clinicians were counseling patients, how patients were understanding their prognosis and making decisions. What is serious illness like? What does serious illness mean? Like at the time of diagnosis.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.” How did you both get interested in this as a topic? Emmy: Yeah.

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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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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

GeriPal

He looked very ill. We are doulas for those with serious illness and those at end-of-life, just a longitudinal relationship, nonmedical support to provide presence. We do conversations on goals of care and advanced care planning as well. John: I am what I am, which is a family practice doctor. This is not that.

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

GeriPal

But now we have older people dying of older people illnesses. So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. You can choose comfort-focused care or you can choose to continue chemotherapy. Michele: So the patients within the Department of Corrections, there are doctors at every facility.

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