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Here We Go Again

Adventures of a Sick Doctor

I opened my diary (an actual physical book, not Outlook) and the silver ribbon is firmly stuck in the week of Wednesday 22nd May. This had been preceded by a fantastic 24 hours in Madrid with another raft of fabulous females, which had come just after the Medical Women's Federation conference in Cambridge where I met loads of lovely people.

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

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Together, our guests offer context around how the medical and carceral systems are deeply intertwined and go hand-in-hand. Explain the significance of abolition medicine, and the role of the medical system in upholding and perpetuating carceral logics.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Emmy: But we know that physiologic changes with aging, like decreasing night vision and so forth, as well as medications, as well as medical conditions, can all affect whether you can drive. Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. They’re really not. Those things do just accumulate with age.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

She aims to become a physician-scientist in pediatrics and medical genetics, engaging in bench-to-bedside research that utilizes multi-omics-based approaches to provide a molecular diagnosis and support personalized care for individuals with suspected rare genetic diseases and their families. Brad’s not a pediatric medical geneticist.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

A friend of GeriPal, and prior guest, Guy Micco commented today that we need an RCT for chaplaincy is like the idea that the humanities need to justify their value in medical training: “It’s like being told to measure the taste of orange juice with a ruler.” It is a screening? I don’t see a lot of those out there. Lexy: Great.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

Elders Climate Action, and let me just tell you a little bit about who we are, was created in 2014 as the project of a 501(c)(3), Elders Action Network. And it is going to affect, if it hasn’t already, our food quality, the food that’s available, our medications. Leslie: Well, yes, thank you, Ruth. Ruth: Right. Ruth: Yeah.