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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

If low bone density is present, it’s often treated alongside a weight loss program. Interventions should also take into account a patient’s motivation and preferences, any comorbidities they have, and their current diet and physical activity levels. Two of the researchers, Kacey Chae, MD , and Kristen M.

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Bingo Resilience

StorytellERdoc

It had presented soon after she had eaten a BLT sandwich for lunch. We laughed together at some of our small talk while I finished my history-taking and began my physical exam. Her physical exam was perfect. On review of her previous visits, I had noticed that she had never been to our ER before. She had no fever.

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

But often what we’re talking about is this experience that we can describe physically inside of our body, the sensation that we’re having as we’re anticipating that things may go wrong or badly in some kind of way. So it tends to be future oriented and tends to show up as a physical sensation in our body.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

As always, I’m your host, Brad Sobolewski, and this episode focuses on the management of children with metabolic disorders who present to the emergency department. Therefore understanding these diseases, their presentations and their evaluation is critical for emergency medicine providers. On clinical presentation.

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

GeriPal

So I actually was doing a grand rounds as my final presentation here at Yale for my fellowship on the role of music in host pice and palliative medicine. A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. I’m originally an ER physician.

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Post-call-trauma

Blood, Sweat, and Tears

It’s mentally draining, physically taxing and if patients have died in front of you, it’s plain traumatic. When I come across arrogant GPs and medical professionals, I wonder how they would handle the stress of a full NICU/PICU/ER/Casualty. I’ve lived through these moments with such a fragile spirit. She thought.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

He was a person with schizophrenia, he was a person who used drugs and he presented in pain crisis to our shelter. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. So, you know, I just wanted to present a couple options and give you a sense of, you know, the background for both.