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Communication

Mere Mortal MD

Nine months later, after lots of rest, sleeping in a recliner, physical therapy, and medications, his back miraculously healed without needing surgery. When he expressed exasperation yesterday over having to know all the different types of hepatitis viruses and vaccines, I asked “Why are you having to learn about bloodborne pathogens?

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

These were usually very physically demanding, low paid, often usually non-union work, that they worked their whole lives and were hanging on by their fingernails. Sometime after the age of 50, we could identify an event where the folks who were first homeless before 50, there wasn’t a clear crisis that precipitated it.