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

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So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care. And I’m seeing people coming in with mini mentals of 10 out of 30 who we end up doing thoroughly testing and they’re perfectly healthy and they’re scoring well. I just had lab tests done. And I pretty much present it as.

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

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” Whether it’s referrals that need to be made, or whether they’re specific actions that the person at home needs to take, like a home safety change. Mazie, I know it changes locale to locale, because your referral sources are going to be different. William: Not the future, but the present. Mazie: Yes.

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

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Do All Children Who Present With a Complex Febrile Seizure Need a Lumbar Puncture? Admittedly, 25 percent of children with meningitis will have seizures at or before the initial presentation, but almost all of these kids will also have other signs and symptoms of meningitis, like altered consciousness, nuclear rigidity, a petechial rash.

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