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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

The term “Native American” is frequently used but does not cover Indigenous Peoples from across the world The Burden of Proof Dr. Sequist discusses “blood quantum”, which is an attempt by the federal government to reduce one’s identity as an Indigenous person to a percentage of blood affiliated with specific Tribes in the US.

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

PEMBlog

Government. Prolonged emergency department length of stay for US pediatric mental health visits (2005-2015). This podcast episode hosted by Brad Sobolewski ( @PEMTweets ) and co-authored by Dennis Ren ( @DennisRenMD ) is all about what we should consider when boarding children in the ED for mental health reasons. JAMA Pediatr.

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

The Clinical Problem Solvers

In contrast, de jure segregation refers to the involvement of federal, state, and local governments in creating, structuring, designing, reinforcing, and perpetuating segregation. This reality of de jure segregation helps us understand that we have an obligation to remedy this constitutional violation.

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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! AlexSmithMD (still on Twitter at present). Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. And which journal again? Eric: JAMA Network Open.

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

Physician's Weekly

In a 2005 article for Rolling Stone that was later retracted, Kennedy claimed government officials had buried data showing a link between vaccines and autism, The Wall Street Journal said. It’s unclear if he has regained access. It added that “HHS will follow the science — wherever it leads.” More information The U.S.

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‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

Physician's Weekly

In the 1980s, the government refused to acknowledge HIV as gay men died young. When Sturdevant first tested positive for HIV in 2005, he didn’t seek treatment. — Cedric Sturdevant woke up with “a bit of depression” but made it to church, as he does every Sunday.