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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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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. So, we formed this organization called Pain and Palliative Care Society in the Northern Kerala city of Kalakkad based in the government medical college. It’s easier to concentrate on cure, diagnosis, cure. We create definitions.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. Why was I spending all this time figuring out the detailed differential diagnosis of these obscure diseases when we weren’t actually attending to what people really needed? Margot: Yeah.

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A Vitamin K Deficient Bleeding AKA Hemorrhagic disease of the newborn podcast

PEMBlog

Pediatrics 2003 July; 112(1):191-2. So there was 1 study published in the British Medical Journal in 1990. These are some of the points in the history that could lead to you making the diagnosis. Imaging is targeted at the differential diagnosis in the site of bleeding. Controversies Concerning Vitamin K and the Newborn.