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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, especially when you're unwell or caring for someone who is. This guide will help you understand the different types of clinics and services they offer, so you can make an informed decision about where to seek medical care. Frequently Asked Questions What is the definition of a clinic?

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How to discuss stopping screening: Mara Schonberg

GeriPal

Cancer screening is designed to detect slow growing cancers that on average take 10 years to cause harm. The benefits of mammography breast cancer screening rise with age, peak when women are in their 60s, and decline thereafter. This is about cancer screening in older adults. Summary Transcript Summary. Mara: Thank you so much.

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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. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. And they’re like, now we want them out of the ER, but they won’t leave.

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

GeriPal

We start each podcast with a song in part to shift the frame, taking people out of their academic selves and into a more informal conversation. I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. You might see me on the TV screens next year.

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

GeriPal

It was specific to the relationship with the patient, the patient’s social context in which they might take this information. I don’t need to know how to bill, to enter encounter information to code. I think a lot of back office function, predicting ER loads and OR loads to do better scheduling of staff.

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

GeriPal

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back two very special guests who were with us early in the COVID pandemic, and really shown a light on what was happening for the rest of us who could see this giant wave coming, and were just thirsty for information and experiences from those people who were experiencing it early.