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Influential women in the history of medicine

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

Curie earned a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, and yet another in Chemistry in 1911, the first and only woman to have been honoured twice. The Apgar score is responsible for reducing infant mortality rates considerably and is still used today to assess the clinical condition of newborns in the first few minutes of life.

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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. Michael 45:57 Yeah, I think I would sort of just end by quoting Michael Balint from the Tavistock Clinic in London. Like why did you think it was important to do a GeriPal podcast on it?

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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

Even a basic understanding of chemistry, biology, and physics is enough to debunk the concepts in this pseudoscience. However, there is no clinical trial on its effect on COVID 19 infection or its complications. However, there is no clinical trial on its effect on COVID 19 infection or its complications. Dipankar et.