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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

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I just had lab tests done. I didn’t know which lab test got my lab tests looked on there. All of a sudden, as a 49 year old, I see I have a PSA on my lab test. Well, not recently, like six months, a year ago. I forget when after not having had one and even before I saw the person.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

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And then the duo, physical and cognitive function, those are the seven that… Alex: Oh, that’s a good way of remembering it. Like getting a donor, doing all the different tests, making sure there’s not going be an interaction. Eric: But if the Practical Geriatric Assessment was a lab test, everybody would get it.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

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They look at the signs and symptoms, they do a physical exam, maybe some lab tests or some imaging. Amber Barnato appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. You’re basically taking data from different sources to say, corroborate what’s going on.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

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Like yourself, when I was a resident, and pain has been shaped in our mind as being a purely physical sensation, especially on the clinical side, where this idea that pain is complex and that pain is as much an emotion as much as physical sensation is not really something we are trained to do. Haider: That was a great story.