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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. link] Townsend, T., Rivera-Aguirre, A.,

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? And I came to the now I think naive conclusion that fixing and avoiding complications was the secret. They were more likely to have a major inpatient surgical complication. She falls and breaks her hip.

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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. Susan: Beautiful. Eric: So Susan, you have touched so many people in the field of hospice palliative medicine. And I learned so much from you and your husband, Andy. Eric: Yeah.

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

GeriPal

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? Eric: So you both published a paper in JAGS, what, 2018, ’19 looking at what happens to people? You want to go back, I know this is pre-pandemic. Alex: The Wayback Machine.

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

GeriPal

Yeah, that’s a more complicated story. But yeah, it’s complicated. And so because you remember, board certification didn’t come around until 2007. This is what gets to be complicated for standardization. Eric 14:40 So basically everybody got the dose of the intervention pretty much. Is that right?

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Ding Dong is the Skinny Label (Effectively) Dead?

FDA Law Blog

Teva submitted an ANDA in 2002, and after some complicated regulatory history, ultimately carved-out the congestive heart failure indication by way of a section viii statement. Teva received tentative approval in June 2003 and launched in 2007 after a blocking patent expired.

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