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Episode 275: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 19 – Reframing the Opioid Epidemic: Anti-Racist Praxis, Racial Health Inequities, and Harm Reduction

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Between 2007 – 2019, Black individuals experienced a higher death rate for opioid overdose deaths than any other racial or ethnic group. One example that is presented involves the complicated relationship between the United States and Chinese immigrants and farmworkers in California.

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

GeriPal

Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. I finished my fellowship in ’88. Why did you go into it? Oh, woe is us.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

Panelists Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates have no relationships to disclose. Wait, first of all, what’s the incidence of calling EMS for falls over almost a decade, I think like 2007 to 2016, and what happens to people afterwards? You want to go back, I know this is pre-pandemic. You got to go way back in your memory.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

Why this study was a success due to the sheer size (nearly 100,000 patients in about 30 EDs) of the study, and the fact that, as far as the investigators know, all study sites continue to employ the clinical decision support tool. And then we had clinical decision support. What is a clinical decision support? Long overdue.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest hosts Lynn Flint and Anne Kelly have no relationships to disclose. But when we have people in rural areas of California, so we don’t know our clinical site, we go from San Francisco all the way to the Northern California border, super rural areas. Eric: All right.

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Well-being and Resilience: a Podcast with Jane Thomas, Naomi Saks, Ishwaria Subbiah

GeriPal

I’ve known you since we did PSAP together, I think, back in 2007 ish. Jane 23:25 Which is, you know, I have had a few different kinds of leadership roles, and one was, as clinical director for our clinical service at Dana Farber and Brigham and women’s, overseeing the clinical operations for our whole fairly large group.

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

GeriPal

Myself personally, I was in PCEP at Harvard, I think like 2007 or something with Rachelle Bernacki and a bunch of other great people. And you’re talking about developing a field, developing clinical experts in the field, research literature base, and a methodologic approach for a field that was also, as you said, marginalized.

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