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Your Least Favorite Emotion, and What to Do with It.

Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

Can you find a way to close the stress cycle regularly: Stress isn’t a one-time event with a single reaction. The Nagoski sisters in their book on burnout highlighted 7 things shown to close the cycle and signal your brain and threat detection system you are safe: Physical exercise. So I just tell it to take a seat in the back.

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FDA Guidance Outlines a Framework for the Evaluation of Long-Term Neurodevelopmental Safety Studies in Neonatal Product Development

FDA Law Blog

The protocol should also include a plan for clinical referral and support services if any developmental problems are identified during the follow-up. When a comprehensive neurodevelopmental evaluation is needed, it should include an evaluation of physical, mental, and social health.

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

You just got to take a good history and do a physical examination, especially when the symptoms are typical, like regurgitation, heartburn, or epigastric pain in an older child or adolescent. Again, otherwise the diagnosis is based on history and physical examination. This measures both acid and non acid reflux events.

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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

GeriPal

I think what we are starting to find with antibiotics, especially in older adults, is with increasing duration as well as increasing dose, older adults are especially susceptible to adverse events associated with the drugs as well as other risk factors like C. difficile infections.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. And one person even called the system 75 times and that was just a light-bulb event for me. laughter] Carmen, welcome to the GeriPal podcast!

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

GeriPal

Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? Eric 11:05 So is there a trigger or what’s your referral criteria for the outpatient clinic? The majority of these folks have some sort of encephalopathic event, so making sure that they have a person and that person knows their wishes.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. They want you to recognize their pain, not just their physical pain, but their trauma that they’ve experienced as a, as a, as a result of being on the streets. And that’s about half of our referrals.