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Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

These factors may have impacted their diet, physical activity, and medications, thus impacting their creatinine levels and the inputs that we use for GFR. J Epidemiol Community Health. This reminds us that using race as a catch-all can shroud other factors (ex. Prioritizing Equity in a Time of Scarcity: The COVID-19 Pandemic.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

Prognosis communication and the subtle ways we may communicate it without intention. Community-based palliative care networks . But when I retired from government service, I left Kalakkad in 2002. What she called total pain, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual, and she started addressing it.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

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In 2002, 1% of adults were taking gabapentinoids (gabapentin and or pregabalin). And so there are fewer opioids going out into the community, and we’re decreasing this risk of opioid use disorder, and all of the other things that have contributed to the opioid crisis. By 2015 that number increased to 4% of US adults.