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Episode 392: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 27 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 2

The Clinical Problem Solvers

The episode highlights the importance of policy advocacy, culturally responsive therapy, and practicing cultural humility in mental health care. She served on the National Institute of Mental Health Advisory Council and the APA’s Council for Research. Dr. Kevin M.

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Episode 384: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 26 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 1

The Clinical Problem Solvers

She is the Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). She served on the National Institute of Mental Health Advisory Council and the APA’s Council for Research. Dr. Kevin M.

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Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Pamela Wible MD

Since that 2015 conversation, I’ve been debunking burnout as a victim-blaming buzzword that prolongs physician agony by avoiding the real issue leading to physician despair. My job is to prevent human suffering and death—even when inflicted by institutional violence against physicians inside our own hospitals. He replied, “Yes.”

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

The MAID issue then came on the table in Canada after the 2015 Supreme Court ruling in Carter v. So I didn’t mention this at the beginning, but after my time as President of Canadian Psychiatric Association, I actually also went on to be the physician chair of my former hospital’s MAID team. But that was separate from MAID.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

And then the second one in 2015. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics. And so I began to think about the training that I had and that there was no mental health condition that was diagnosed. Many people starting to talk about loneliness epidemic. Eric: How about you, Thomas?

IT 99
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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

We leveraged data collected as part of the national survey on drug use and health, which examines people substance use behaviors and whether they meet diagnostic criteria for substance use disorder, based on how they describe their substance use in the past 12 months. I think- Eric: I was going to say that. Katie: Yeah. Jessie: Right.

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

GeriPal

And so we do see hospital admissions for heat exposure and certainly cardiovascular and respiratory problems related to air pollution with climate change and also cognitive problems. And we have gone from 250 members at the end of 2015 to about 26,000 right now across the United States and a number of chapters that have grown.