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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

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Anna Chodos is a geriatrician at UCSF and the Principal Investigator of Dementia Care Aware, a California-wide program to improve the detection of dementia in older adults who have Medi-Cal benefits. What hasn’t been shown, Eric, is that if you apply tools like this, clinical outcomes down the road are better for patients.

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Self-Esteem Scores Soar One Year After Metabolic, Bariatric Surgery

Physician's Weekly

from Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania, and colleagues examined changes in patients’ internalized weight stigma before and after MBS. Patients aged 18+ who underwent primary bariatric surgery from 2006 to 2019 were identified (5,749 patients). Justin Dhyani, M.D., versus +46.9