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Personalized medicine in a community health system: the Endeavor Health experience [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

In 2014, Endeavor Health (formerly NorthShore University HealthSystem) launched the Center for Personalized Medicine to catalyze the delivery of personalized medicine. Results: To date, more than 225,000 patients have been screened for increased hereditary conditions, such as cancer risk, through these tools in primary care.

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GeneSight® Mental Health Monitor Results

Myriad Genetics

The majority of these patients (54%) agree that genetic testing for mental health medications (known as pharmacogenomic or PGx testing) could reduce these concerns. The majority of these patients (54%) agree that genetic testing for mental health medications (known as pharmacogenomic or PGx testing) could reduce these concerns.

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Here We Go Again

Adventures of a Sick Doctor

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. It was me, my liver, up on that screen, with a blob of stuff in it that shouldn't be there. He showed me the new one.

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Is DCIS Cancer or Not?

AMMD

My first breast cancer scare was in 2014, when they discovered calcifications for the first time during a routine mammogram. I also did a screening blood test to look for circulating tumor cells, which I will have an article on this soon! For this reason, medical experts classify DCIS as noninvasive. What Causes DCIS?

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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. Is there a screening tool that we can use, or just questions that you ask older adults around driving safety? They’re really not.

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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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