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Episode 236: ARM Episode 16 – Live from SGIM: Best of Antiracism Research at the Society of General Internal Medicine’s 2022 Annual Meeting

The Clinical Problem Solvers

As she embarked on her project, she realized that improving serious illness care would require improving serious illness communication. 2008 Oct;100(10):1235-43. Episode 6: Racism, Trustworthiness, and the COVID-19 Vaccine.” N Engl J Med. 2021 Mar 4;384(9):791-793. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2030623. J Natl Med Assoc.

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RFK Jr. and vaccine politics

Common Sense Family Doctor

News stories have focused on his beliefs about water fluoridation, unpasteurized ("raw") milk, and vaccine safety. may want to take fluoride out of the water, ramp up consumption of raw milk, and make vaccines optional for school entry, but fortunately, HHS doesn't have direct jurisdiction over any of these issues. Kennedy, Jr.

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

PEMBlog

Common variants associated with general and MMR vaccine-related febrile seizures. 2008 Jul 15;71(3):170-6. Epub 2008 Jun 4. Febrile seizures are due to the degree of fever, not the rate of temperature rise, even though we see them as the temperature is increasing rapidly in the early parts of the illness. doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000310774.01185.97.

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