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Access to health care and services for the Deaf: A scoping review of reviews [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Additional searches included searches on Google Scholar, manual searches, citation tracking and reference list screening. A community consultation identified the evaluation of the cost of providing sign language interpreters (or not) as a top research priority. Popay et al.’s Setting: Any context of health care or services.

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San Luis Obispo Physician Launches New Medical Practice with Exclusive Service Program from Concierge Choice Physicians

Concierge Choice Physicians

She graduated from UCLA School of Medicine in 2010 and completed her residency at the University of Michigan in 2013. “Welcoming my patients to this new style of medicine has been overwhelmingly positive,” Dr. Greenough adds.

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Delivery of healthcare provider’s lifestyle advice and lifestyle behavioural change in adults who were overweight or obese in pre-diabetes management in the USA NHANES (2013–2018)

BMJ

Our study sample included 1039 eligible adults who were overweight or obese and reported prediabetes from pooled NHANES (2013-2018). This finding suggested that the health care providers might pay more attention to a high-risk population in prediabetes management. Of those, 76.8% Among those receiving doctors’ advice, 83.8%

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The sense and nonsense of CT screening for lung cancer

The Health Policy Exchange

Supporters of evidence-based preventive medicine cheered when the Affordable Care Act required Medicare and private health insurers to provide first-dollar coverage for all preventive services assigned an "A" or "B" recommendation grade by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Kenny Lin, MD, MPH Director, Robert L.

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Episode 322: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 24 – Leveraging Narrative Medicine to Cultivate Antiracist Praxis

The Clinical Problem Solvers

It also helps illustrate the power of witnessing and mutual recognition, where there is a narrative exchange between patient and provider, with a validation of patients’ suffering. This helps people think about how people tend to each others’ well-being in their communities as well. Brown, Adrienne Maree. Consortium Book Sales & Dist.

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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

[link] CPSolvers: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 21 – Psychosocial and Cultural Considerations for Providing Healthcare to Immigrant and Refugee Populations Show Notes by Kiersten T. 2022 May 28;399(10340):2013. Olivia Shadid, who does work on mental health evaluations for asylum seekers, which can be found here.

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

GeriPal

And then maybe KN95s, FFP2s and KF94s, if you wear them, at least in physical science studies, if you’re inside in a crowded where Warrior stadium or something, that should provide you some self protection.