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Pandemic challenges for patients with heart disease

By Angelica | Jan 17, 2021 | Comments Off on Pandemic challenges for patients with heart disease

It is stressful enough to live with heart disease. Now, with a global pandemic, access to health care providers has shifted from in-office to telemedicine in many instances. There are challenges for patients with heart disease in this context: Patients are often older and are not familiar with using technology for videoconferencing (Zoom, Doximity, FaceTime,…

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A real-life example of irrational health care spending

By Angelica | Jan 17, 2021 | Comments Off on A real-life example of irrational health care spending

This week at work, I had a patient in the hospital who had been through a pretty challenging illness, and he was going to have to be discharged to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) to rehab for a few weeks. Sadly, SNFs in my area do not currently allow any visitors due to the pandemic.…

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A national patient identifier would make vaccinating the entire U.S. population easier

By Angelica | Jan 17, 2021 | Comments Off on A national patient identifier would make vaccinating the entire U.S. population easier

Developing the COVID-19 vaccine was the first monumental milestone on a long and arduous journey to achieving the entire U.S. population’s vaccination. One of the barriers to achieving this task is the absence of a reliable, scalable way to uniquely identify each individual before or after they receive the vaccine. Furthermore, in the absence of…

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This physician is overwhelmed. She is not alone. [PODCAST]

By Angelica | Jan 17, 2021 | Comments Off on This physician is overwhelmed. She is not alone. [PODCAST]

“I am overwhelmed right now. I know I am not alone. I hear it in the voices of my friends, family, colleagues, patients. We are all feeling it. I am overwhelmed by this virus. There is so much to learn, so much to teach. Every day the information changes. Who is credible? Who is just…

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A reminder to try anyways

By Angelica | Jan 16, 2021 | Comments Off on A reminder to try anyways

The highly anticipated A Promised Land was the first book I could not wait to crack open over my two-week break for the winter holidays. Former President Barack Obama explains in his introduction that this work is the first of two autobiographical accounts covering the period from his state legislature run in Illinois through his…

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Not all frontline health workers who need priority vaccination are doctors and nurses

By Angelica | Jan 16, 2021 | Comments Off on Not all frontline health workers who need priority vaccination are doctors and nurses

Canadians breathed a huge sigh of relief when the federal government approved the first COVID-19 vaccine and saw the first immunizations take place. The end of the pandemic and the prospect of a return to normal, whatever that means, became a real possibility. Rolling out a national vaccination program will be no small feat. In…

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Grief during the pandemic 

By Angelica | Jan 16, 2021 | Comments Off on Grief during the pandemic 

With this third surge and our ICUs at zero capacity in Los Angeles, I spent  New Year’s Eve alone at my apartment, recovering from a wards rotation I had completed the night before. No revelry or celebration for me this year.  For months, this virus has been wreaking havoc on our lives and slowly,   then…

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Fundrise: Real Estate Investment Lanny’s 2020 Year-End Review

By Angelica | Jan 16, 2021 | Comments Off on Fundrise: Real Estate Investment Lanny’s 2020 Year-End Review

Fundrise is an online crowd funding platform that allows investors to invest into real estate.  The platform provides another avenue for passive income that can be helpful on the journey to financial freedom!  That is the exact reason we have been investing with Fundrise. My wife and I have now been investing with Fundrise for…

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Merging the wisdom of pain medicine and addiction medicine to optimize outcomes

By Angelica | Jan 16, 2021 | Comments Off on Merging the wisdom of pain medicine and addiction medicine to optimize outcomes

Family lore recalls that my grandfather, succumbing to stomach cancer in the mid-1960s, “died addicted to morphine.” Decades before the AIDS crisis sparked the hospice and palliative care movements, the confluences of pain, dependence, and addiction were confused and regrettably moralized. Since then, the science has excelled, but our clinical understanding of how pain and…

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Mortgage and refinance rates today, Jan. 16, and rate forecast for next week

By Angelica | Jan 16, 2021 | Comments Off on Mortgage and refinance rates today, Jan. 16, and rate forecast for next week

Today’s mortgage and refinance rates  Average mortgage rates inched lower yesterday. But that followed six days without a fall, five of which showed rises. And averages remain noticeably higher than […] Original Article Posted at : https://themortgagereports.com/73391/mortgage-and-refinance-rates-today-january-16-2021

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