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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. I have so many questions, and I promise we’re going to get to the management of anxiety and serious illness. Because it can be important to think about how people are coping with their illness. How are they feeling?

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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. No more googling "ER near me" in a panic; you can get quick and competent care at an urgent care center.

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

GeriPal

Eric: I’m looking forward to talking about art and humor in palliative care and we’re caring for seriously ill patients. I’m going to share my screen and we can talk about that. And I’m just going to explain it to our listeners, what I’m seeing on my screen. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Nathan.

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

GeriPal

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. 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. And I found myself, at times, kind of at a.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

Now, newborn screening, or NBS, includes testing newly born infants for certain IEMs. But again, metabolic GI illness, interrupt other interruptions in feeding schedule, intense exercise. So, again, to reinforce, since IEMs have very specific non specific presentations, the goal in the ER is not to specifically diagnose the IEM.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. Alex 00:12 I’m Alex Smith, and usually you ask me who we have with us today.

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How to identify a victim of heat exhaustion or heat stroke

Medical Xpress

Wood, director of Northeastern Universitys Extreme Medicine Certificate Program, says its important for people to recognize the signs of heat illness and how quickly heat exhaustion can progress to heat stroke, when immersion in cold water is necessary to save lives. Heat stroke is the most serious heat illness, Wood says.

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