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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

A recent study offers recommendations on how to balance weight loss goals and bone health concerns in weight management programs for older adults. Likewise, the National Institute on Aging developed a toolkit to help promote safe, effective exercise techniques for old er adults.

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Need to See a Doctor Fast? Here’s How Urgent Care Could Save Your Day

Plum Health

These are the moments when you don’t have time to wait for an appointment with your primary care doctor, and the emergency room (ER) seems like overkill. They’re like a hybrid between a primary care clinic and the ER—open late, available on weekends, and usually accepting walk-ins. No long waits like you’d experience in an ER.

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Congenital Arrhythmogenic Pathologies - An Overview

Louisville Lectures

Finally, Dr. Reed presents management plans and when to pursue intervention. Nevertheless, an interest in cardiology began at a young age and continued to grow through work as a phlebotomist and as an ER tech - the latter of which offered me an early start to learning EKG interpretation. For more information, see our citation page.

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Underneath

StorytellERdoc

Walking into Room 33, my next patient, who had come to the ER complaining of cough and cold symptoms, seemed just as I had expected. Between coughs, he managed to give me a faint smile. What can I do to help you in our ER today?" I hope you, too, find new meaning in old words. He coughed before answering in raspy voice. "I

Physicals 100
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How to choose the best college for MD Pediatrics?

Tiny Physician

These kinds of small but necessary information may not be available in all textbooks and similar discussions during rounds will be remembered more than what you read from Nelson. Patient load Image taken from [link] Ward management is as important as ICU care and you spend around 12 to 14 months at the ward in the 36 months long residency.

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Advanced Imaging of Children in the ED: Ultrasound, CT, and MRI

PEMBlog

And how do we actually strike the right balance between obtaining essential diagnostic information and avoiding unnecessary imaging? The other thing though that’s important is a lot of times, you know, the CT gives us good information and it’s fast, but it may not be the best test.

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Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary We recently published a podcast on palliative care for kidney failure, focusing on conservative kidney management. Today we’re going to focus upstream on the decision to initiate dialysis vs conservative kidney management. For example, with peritoneal dialysis and conservative management.