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Rural Hospital Futures in Colorado - Rapid Review and Environmental Scan for Policy Opportunities [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Since 2005, over 180 rural hospitals have closed across the United States and 800 rural hospitals remain at high risk of closure. Nearly four million rural Americans lost a hospital in their county between 2005 and 2021. Media outlets offered narrative examples confirming the peer-reviewed literature. Conclusions.

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Episode 68: Human Dx unknown with Rabih & UNC residents – lower extremity weakness

The Clinical Problem Solvers

She is pursuing a career in hospital medicine and is interested in medical education and diagnostic clinical reasoning. Dr. Travis Smith Travis Smith is an attending EM doc and clinical preceptor at St. He received a degree in Biological Science from The Florida State University in 2005 (go Noles).

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 5: Management of the child with mental health problems who is boarded in the ED

PEMBlog

Prolonged emergency department length of stay for US pediatric mental health visits (2005-2015). Characteristics, Clinical Care, and Disposition Barriers for Mental Health Patients Boarding in the Emergency Department. JAMA Pediatr. 2023;177(2):168–176. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.4885 Pediatrics. 2021;147(5):e2020030692.

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Episode 209: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 12 – Our Land is Our Health: Addressing Anti-Indigenous Racism in Medicine

The Clinical Problem Solvers

link] Indigenous Peoples and global poverty rates [link] Teem Vogue : “Native Communities Face Higher Risks During Coronavirus Pandemic Thanks to Legacy of Colonization” [link] Perspective by Dr. Tom Sequist “Paving the Way — Providing Opportunities for Native American Students” N Engl J Med 2005; 353:1884-1886. November 23, 2021.

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Episode 200: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 11 – Racism, Redlining, and the Path Towards Reconciliation

The Clinical Problem Solvers

They are a product of deep-rooted man-made policies that extend to many sectors (healthcare, education, criminal justice etc). You can draw a line from these discriminatory housing policies, to the wealth gap, to disparities in education, health, and police brutality. London: Routledge; 2005. Metzl JM, Hansen H. Soc Sci Med.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

So a couple weeks after it was published, I took a trip to a medical school in the western part of the country and I was visiting to think about their geriatrics research program, and they had a geriatrics evaluation clinic. And I met with the clinical pharmacist who worked in that clinic and she told me, “You know what?

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

We additionally firmly establish that the song How to Save a Life by the Fray was a product of the aughts (2005, to be exact), not the 90’s ): Enjoy! And when I was getting my PhD, I wanted to find something that spoke to me, and I had been doing clinical work in nursing homes. ” So, I think it’s the idea about education.