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Influential women in the history of medicine

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

Most notably, it led the way to the development of the x-ray, which allowed internal imagery to be used for diagnosis without the need for open surgery, and radiation therapy for treating cancer. Apgar was the first woman to become a full professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

This is both a research and a clinical interest of yours. But that just didn’t really resonate with what I saw clinically which was that there was lots of suffering both in the patient, their family and on the clinical team and just felt it was really this space where I didn’t have a lot of evidence to guide me.

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Redefining Alzheimer’s Disease: A Podcast with Heather Whitson, Jason Karlawish, Lon Schneider

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary There is a growing push to change how we define Alzheimer’s disease from what was historically a clinically defined syndrome to a newer biological definition based on the presence of positive amyloid biomarkers. So too systolic hypertension in elderly people, clinical trials. This is Eric Widera.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

And then once I came to the United States, I saw this whole different dimension of pain, because I started residency in 2011, this was really at the peak of the opioid prescription epidemic, if you may. And yet, if you look at our clinical approach to pain, it still remains quite basic. And I was an internal medicine resident.

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Going beyond the surface material: A podcast episode on cellulitis

PEMBlog

2011 Mar;127(3):e573-80. Epub 2011 Feb 21. Clinical practice guidelines by the infectious diseases society of america for the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in adults and children. Clin Infect Dis 2011; 52:e18. Clinically, for both, you’ll see areas of skin erythema.

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