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Plastic Surgery Intern Year: Catching up on 6 months of Updates

Aspiring Minority Doctor

It kept me busy, but I really enjoyed the hospital I was rotating at, and the attendings let me do a lot in the operating room. BlackGirlMagic in the Operating Room Last month ( May ), I was back on General Surgery and at my main hospital. My rotation for the month was Trauma/General Surgery. Time flies!

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Impact of home care on healthcare use after a first diagnosis of dementia in older adults living with severe mental illness [Geriatrics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To describe individual characteristics and healthcare use in older adults with SMI across home care services (HCS) profiles before and after the first dementia diagnosis. Group 1 consisted of older individuals, mainly diagnosed in the hospital and with poorer COC. Study Design and Analysis: Retrospective cohort study.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

Helen Haskell’s 15-year-old son, Lewis, died after surgery in 2000 because weekend hospital staffers didn’t realize he was in shock. Haskell, of Columbia, South Carolina, has done research and helped write AHRQ-published surveys and guidebooks on patient engagement for hospitals. What we’ve been doing isn’t working,” he said.