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A Guide to Allergy Testing

Mesa Family Physician

Always consult a healthcare professional for accurate diagnosis and treatment options that suit your lifestyle. Whether you’re exploring options through your provider or considering an at-home kit, understanding the process is the first step.

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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

GeriPal

We make a diagnosis. Eric: … the acknowledgement more, do you want to specialize in geriatrics and be that your focus, or do you want to just have really good skills- Greg: Yes, absolutely. Second thing to say is that I think referrals are really important. I have hired coaches based on referrals. Greg: Yeah.

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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

GeriPal

We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as: Who should get specialized palliative care? Should eligibility and access be determined by clinician referral? By diagnosis? It depends on the referrals. By prognosis?

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. So I would agree, just in terms of not trying to dismiss a lot of these patients in terms of deconditioning and really trying to sometimes hone in on the diagnosis despite a Bnp level that is not necessarily very high.

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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. Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? Eric 11:05 So is there a trigger or what’s your referral criteria for the outpatient clinic? And so I thought it was appropriate. We’re talking about liver.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

And we got this as a hospice referral, and could we, you know, take her on and support her in hospice? Just got the diagnosis based on blood tests of amyloid. Then just got the diagnosis. I know that food and drink gets its own sort of special category in a lot of are thinking, but I think of it as very. Alex 23:47 Yeah.

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Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

GeriPal

On today’s podcast Areej El-Jawahri, oncologist specializing in blood cancers at MGH, says that sexual health is one of the top if not the top issue among cancer survivors. Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers.

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