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Doctors Within Borders

Integrated Care News by CFHA

When the film is a documentary, such portrayal is also revealing, as is the case with “Fire at Sea,” directed by Gianfranco Rosi in 2016. A scene shows Samuele making slingshots from sticks he collects and medical rubber bands and then taking them to a local field to shoot projectiles at cactus plants with his friends.

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Kaiser Permanente study shows screening efforts cut colorectal cancer deaths in half

Permanente Medicine

From 2012 to 2016, death rates from colorectal cancer among Black people were nearly 40% higher than in whites and double that seen in Asians and Pacific Islanders, according to the American Cancer Society. Levin, MD , a Kaiser Permanente Division of Research scientist and gastroenterologist with The Permanente Medical Group.