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Share of patients with heat exhaustion increased 53 percent when comparing June 2016 to June 2021

Medical Xpress

Among privately insured individuals receiving medical services, the percentage of patients diagnosed with heat exhaustion increased 52.5 percent when comparing June 2016 to June 2021. These and other findings are reported in a FAIR Health brief released today, Heat-Related Illness: A Window into Recent Trends.

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Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Moreover, center patients not only in discussions about individual decision-making but in constructing and drawing meaning from the research. 2016 Jul;91(7):916-20. Establishing a Task Force to Reassess the Inclusion of Race in Diagnosing Kidney Diseases. September 12, 2018. Race Matters? doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001232.

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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. 2016 Jan;37(1):3-15; quiz 16-7, 47.

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A podcast episode about laryngomalacia

PEMBlog

2016 Apr;83:78-83. But it might underestimate it because lots of mild cases don’t actually present clinically, and they’re not diagnosed endoscopically. The best way to diagnose this is through imaging like CT scans. Isaac A, Zhang H, Soon SR, Campbell S, El-Hakim H. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

Annie 02:31 So if you go to the A G S meeting every year, you know that this group of three individuals comprises the AGS literature update. Annie 05:16 So if you look back in history, I think Eric and Ken have been doing this since 2016. But in spite of that, it is a lot of work for three individuals to pull all this together.

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

GeriPal

The number of people who have used MAID in Canada since it was legalized in 2016 has increased year on year from about 1,000 people in the first year to over 13,000 people in 2022. In 2016 there were about a thousand MAID deaths, in 2021 there were about 10,000. So it started off for individuals with a terminal illness.

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

GeriPal

Just an extraordinary cast of individuals who were really so incredibly inspiring. And then the final category, the third category is what we called the dignity conserving repertoire, which really has to do with kind of the spiritual, and psychological landscape and makeup of that individual. I mean, I was very much a clinician.