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Influential women in the history of medicine

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

200-400 AD) Metrodora, a Greek female physician, wrote On the Diseases and Cures of Women, the oldest medical text known to be written by a woman. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) British-born Elizabeth Blackwell is best known as the first woman to earn an medical degree (MD) in the US. Metrodora (c.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions.

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

GeriPal

And the two were sort of intermeshed even to the point in the eighties, the thought was all dementia is Alzheimer’s or it’s some medical illness or combination of other stuff that’s not about it. Just for the audience, we’re talking about, the NIA and the AA have been doing these frameworks since what, 2011?

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Surfers play crucial role in beach safety according to study

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