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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

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Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. Both conditions can present with similar symptoms. Adolescents with GERD often present similarly to adults with heartburn and regurgitation as the primary complaints. And the presentation for GERD varies by age. Now there are some risk factors for GERD.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

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Then listen to these prior podcasts with Sean Morrison and Rebecca Sudore about this issue, and we recently discussed differences between Advance Care Planning and Serious Illness Communication with Juliet Jacobsen and Rachelle Bernacki. . Completion of advance directives and billing codes for advance care planning as quality metrics.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

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In addition to being a palliative and hospice RN, she is the Executive Director for Goodwin Hospice , a large non-profit hospice that added end-of-life doula care to their services in collaboration with Jane and John’s doula organization, Present for You. He looked very ill. Jane, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

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Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. Emmy: So that older person or person with maybe terminal illness or developing impairments, it might make sense for them to just keep driving because they don’t have a good replacement. It’s like breaking bad news in palliative care. Absolutely. Emmy: Yeah.

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

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Nate also wrote a NEJM piece last year on Alzheimers Disease, Biomarkers, and mAbs What Does Primary Care Need? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? But we went from primary care to this. It’s.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

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And so I think one thing we really like about not having it scripted word for word is the opportunity to kind of flex into that moment and just be present and kind of try that out. And for about five years, my mom was declining from a dementia illness, we think something Parkinsonian. And she did have a primary care doctor.

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Podcast Episode: The Unvaccinated Child with Fever

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This episode of PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast focuses on the approach to unvaccinated or undervaccinated children aged 336 months presenting to the ED with fever. The episode emphasizes thoughtful, individualized care in the context of rising vaccine hesitancy and declining immunization rates.