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Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

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We had a phrase about taking this medicine as an additional pill for you to swallow, and requires periodic lab tests for monitoring and… Eric: And cost you money. ” their minds have been elsewhere in terms of healthcare delivery. Ariel: Yes. And costs you money. ” Eric: Huh. They remembered getting it.

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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. I mean, I don’t want to speak to your healthcare system and what’s happened, but that to me seems inappropriate.

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

GeriPal

But I think if I were under normal constraints of the healthcare system, I wouldn’t have that time. 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. Mazie: Oh, for sure.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

And I think the crisis that we’re in right now in healthcare delivery, the idea of laying down my badge, I think that’s maybe a metaphor for being a sheriff, but what about being a healthcare provider? They look at the signs and symptoms, they do a physical exam, maybe some lab tests or some imaging.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

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But we all know that our health system, the way that it treats symptoms that it can see, that it can diagnose, that it can get a lab test for, an imaging test for the services that we can provide that person is just so much different than the services we provide someone who doesn’t check any of those boxes.