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Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

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We had a phrase about taking this medicine as an additional pill for you to swallow, and requires periodic lab tests for monitoring and… Eric: And cost you money. Eric: So an educational component potentially going on there. Ariel: Yes. And costs you money. ” Eric: Huh. And they may have already had a fall.

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

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I just had lab tests done. I didn’t know which lab test got my lab tests looked on there. All of a sudden, as a 49 year old, I see I have a PSA on my lab test. Eric 41:31 Also worry that like part of this is the, the taint that educated me put over everything. It just happened.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

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So I would say that a lot of the education we received were on cutting edge research and the latest drugs in clinical trials, the latest cellular therapies that are coming out. Like getting a donor, doing all the different tests, making sure there’s not going be an interaction. Mazie: That’s a really nuanced question.