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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

Maybe I can turn to both of you about how you got interested in thinking about decision-making and surgical care for those with dementia. Really, a smart and caring woman. So, that was maybe 20 years ago at this point and it really got me down the road thinking about advance care planning, end-of-life care, and similar consequences.

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Pathways to primary care for underserved communities

Common Sense Family Doctor

A research study in Health Affairs charts "physicians' trajectories from medical school graduation through postgraduate training into primary care specialties" for MD, DO, and international medical graduates from 2001-15. and 3.6%, respectively, in 2008-09 to 14.3% It's well documented that schools that are ranked highly by U.S.

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CDC Pulls Vaccine Slide After Expert Cites Study Doesn’t Exist

Physician's Weekly

The slide, posted online Tuesday, cited a 2008 paper titled “Low-level neonatal thimerosal exposure: Long-term consequences in the brain,” and was said to have been published in the journal Neurotoxicology. “I I don’t have a publication in Neurotoxicology by that title,” Berman told CNN. It lists U.S. Kennedy Jr. as a founder.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

And the Ryan Haight Act I think was passed in 2008, which was in response to a young person who died of an opioid overdose. And they were prescribed those opioids from an online prescriber, that was not from a palliative care practice by the way, but some online prescriber of opioids. Joe: I do. Eric: Wait, which version? Joe: Right.