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Revisiting the Advantages of aSOAP Notes: The Best of the Paper Chart and Old School Photography

A Country Doctor Writes

If a patient only has one medical problem and never had any surgeries, why would any reader of their medical record prefer to view one or more full screens or pages of what has NOT happened to this patient, at least not as of some date in the past when that was nailed down as the patient’s medical profile. Dietary strategies reviewed.

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Common Myths About Blood Pressure and Heart Health

Imperial Center Family Medicine

You Can Tell You Have High Blood Pressure From How You Feel The reality is that high blood pressure (hypertension) is largely a “silent” condition. Having Smaller “Mini” Heart Attacks Reduces Your Risk For A Major Event A heart attack of any size indicates existing cardiovascular disease.

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How Your Emotional Health Impacts Blood Pressure

Imperial Center Family Medicine

Over time, this can cause persistent hypertension and extra strain on your cardiac system. Studies associate the two hours after an episode of rage with a higher risk of adverse cardiovascular events. Contact us today at 919-873-4437 or online to take control of hypertension through emotional wellness and preventative self-care.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. So there’s an event or a series of events.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

We covered: The first parody song I wrote, for AGS 2018 in Orlando , about this article by Nancy Schoenborn on how to discuss stopping cancer screening. So if you haven’t been to this event, there is a literature review where we. How to talk to patients about screening colonoscopies. And so we did this song. Ken 10:29 Yes.

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Redefining Alzheimer’s Disease: A Podcast with Heather Whitson, Jason Karlawish, Lon Schneider

GeriPal

You can easily have fibrinoid necrosis of your kidneys and not have hypertension, but the pathology of hypertension is most commonly associated with fibrinoid necrosis. Jason: You could have hypertension and have no signs and symptoms. So too systolic hypertension in elderly people, clinical trials. You can see it.

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