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Episode 232: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 15 – Housing is Health: Racism and Homelessness – Clinician + Community Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

During this episode, we gained insight from special guests Dr. Margot Kushel and Mr. Bobby Watts about what brought them into their fields, how their work reaches the most marginalized, and what can be done at the community and structural level to address homelessness. Know your community resources.

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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 . Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. Raj: That’s one of the high tech medical absurdities that we have developed.

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RFK Jr. Hires Autism Skeptic To Look Into CDC Autism Data

Physician's Weekly

“He has no record in the scientific community of doing valid work,” said Dr. Walter Orenstein , a former CDC immunization director. It led to revocation of the elder Geier’s medical license and disciplinary action for David Geier for practicing medicine without a license. The final findings were published in 2003.

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Marijuana: Top Ten Reasons for Descheduling, Rescheduling or Not

FDA Law Blog

Not surprisingly, then-presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson, DEA Administrator from 2001 to 2003, did not sign the letter. The former officials implore following the science demonstrating marijuana’s high addictive potential, its lack of accepted medical use, and the rescheduling impact on prosecuting drug trafficking organizations.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

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. I would love to get the geriatrics community to say, “Age is just a number.” Not true, actually.

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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). Later, due to mass outrage from the scientific community, the label of ‘drug for treatment’ was changed to ‘immunity booster’ (5). Dipankar et.