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Influential women in the history of medicine

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

200-400 AD) Metrodora, a Greek female physician, wrote On the Diseases and Cures of Women, the oldest medical text known to be written by a woman. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) British-born Elizabeth Blackwell is best known as the first woman to earn an medical degree (MD) in the US. Metrodora (c.

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

GeriPal

I have felt as I’ve come through this field over the last, I guess 2003 is when I realized I wanted to be a palliative care doctor. You’re a disgruntled medical student. You’re thinking about dropping out of medical school. Like why did you think it was important to do a GeriPal podcast on it? It’s 1974.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

I would talk about this, except I was a clinician, and I’m seeing these folks in the hospital and in clinic. So we realized that we had a series of cross-sectional studies in San Francisco from the early 1990s to 2003. We looked at it and realized that in the early 1990s, 11% of folks were 50 and over, and by 2003, 37% were.

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Arsenicum album for Kerala school students: a bogus prophylaxis

Tiny Physician

Indian Medical Association (IMA) Kerala wing criticized the minister at that time as the medicine lacked scientific evidence (2). Even a basic understanding of chemistry, biology, and physics is enough to debunk the concepts in this pseudoscience. It will be the last element to be included in a drug that is given to the masses.