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Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Nwamaka Eneanya and Jennifer Tsai to discuss the limitations and harms of race-based medicine in clinical practice. Our guests explain how we can incorporate race-conscious medicine in clinical settings, medical education, and biomedical/epidemiological research to responsibly recognize and address the harms of racial inequality.

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Episode 68: Human Dx unknown with Rabih & UNC residents – lower extremity weakness

The Clinical Problem Solvers

She is pursuing a career in hospital medicine and is interested in medical education and diagnostic clinical reasoning. Dr. Travis Smith Travis Smith is an attending EM doc and clinical preceptor at St. Kumfer is a third year resident at the University of North Carolina Internal Medicine Residency.

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Episode 155: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 5 – Racism, Power, and Policy: Building the Antiracist Health Systems of the Future

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Additionally, we should equip educators, parents, and those who will guide the next generations with the tools to operate within the framework of anti-racism. 2009 Jun;101(6):501-12. 2009 Jun;101(6):513-27. Mr. Khazanchi is a member of the American Medical Association’s Council on Medical Education. J Natl Med Assoc.

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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

GeriPal

We have a discussion about the decision to remove race, a social construct, from clinical risk calculators (though I’m not 100% sold that race should always be removed – if removal is likely to worsen disparities for example – at least until a superior race-blind calculator can be developed). So you’re right.

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Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath

GeriPal

About half of patients who are over the age of 65 start dialysis with a GFR of over 9, which is sort of the level below which we have clinical trial evidence for suggesting that there may not be a benefit to starting at that level of GFR. 2009, yeah, 2009. Clinical experience. One of my favorite articles. Go ahead, Alex.

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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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Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry

GeriPal

And so there was a report in 2009 by the Institute of Medicine saying that we need to equip all of these individuals in caring for older person in an evidence based manner. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. So you’re right.