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Disaster preparedness, What we have learned from COVID 19 pandemic [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Despite a joint recommendation in 2003 by the AAMC and CDC that bioterrorism and mass-casualty training be included in the medical school curriculum, few medical schools have incorporated formal disaster training. We aim to highlight educational gaps for future pandemic preparedness.

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Influential women in the history of medicine

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

This important work observed that there was a relationship between radioactivity and the heavy elements of the periodic table, and led to much advancement in medicine. This was fundamental in ensuring life-saving blood transfusions were safe and effective.

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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

This is the last of three episodes interrogating the relationships between race, place, housing, and health. By 2003, 37% were 50 and older. Now, among single adults experiencing homelessness, the median age is much closer to 50, meaning about half are under 50 and half are over 50.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

And in 2003, I formed Pallium India with several colleagues with the national agenda, because still then the growth was mostly conveyed to Kerala and a couple of metropolitan cities. And I’ll share that my own relationship with my father, who was a doctor, was a complicated one. I’m not sure he would really approve.

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AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use: A Podcast with Todd Semla and Mike Steinman

GeriPal

And then there was a version in 2003 which Mark participated in and he since passed. I feel like geriatricians have a, maybe it’s more of a hate/hate relationship with NSAIDs right now. Ruining the patient doctor relationship because you get into a fight about what anti-coagulants should be on.

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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. I loved the relationship that we developed and the fun we had. Sue 43:51 I think that’s where the relationship stands of just coming and keeping it going. And she said, I run like hell.

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