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Geriatric Medicine Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

He emphasized ABIM’s focus on patient-centered standards and promoting high-quality care, as well as ABIM’s commitment to ensuring a diverse governance that reflects the physician and patient population. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N. Above all, they noted the value of evolving definitions and remaining inclusive.

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Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.

Physician's Weekly

has long disparaged certain vaccines, calling them unsafe and saying that the government officials who regulate them are compromised and corrupt. 1, 2013, weren’t eligible for vaccination, but those even slightly younger were eligible. The new studies are coming at a fraught political moment. Kennedy Jr.,

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding. Can you tell me about that?

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What is Death? Winston Chiong and Sean Aas

GeriPal

Patients families want to know whether their loved one has died. And one would be when care is continuing a case where people believe that the patients died, or oftentimes, this is also a source of controversy between families and clinicians. And I think maybe we could list them all. That’s one key interested party.

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Episode 285: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 21 – Psychosocial and Cultural Considerations for Providing Healthcare to Immigrant and Refugee Populations

The Clinical Problem Solvers

A lot of compounding trauma occurs at the border that has potential downstream mental health implications for individuals and their families. Dr. Saadi discusses how her parents left Iraq under Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship, where he was targeting many Iraqis with Iranian ancestry and Shi’a Muslims–which included members of her family.

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

GeriPal

Our department chair is always tweeting, and I think there was a fourth shot and then a mild infection in a family member. And to be very fair, there was a study in 2013 in family practice, this would be important, I think for those who treat older patients. So it’s not preventing all infections, even a fourth shot.