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

The Clinical Problem Solvers

These factors may have impacted their diet, physical activity, and medications, thus impacting their creatinine levels and the inputs that we use for GFR. 2016 Jul;91(7):916-20. This reminds us that using race as a catch-all can shroud other factors (ex. September 12, 2018. link] Tsai J, Ucik L, Baldwin N, Hasslinger C, George P.

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How Doctors Can Save More and Do Less

The Motivated MD

A study by Johns Hopkins in 2016 found that medical errors may potentially be the third leading cause of death nationwide. This way, you are always on track to meet your savings goals while limiting the physical and mental effort needed to get there. So yes, humans make mistakes. This is the same for personal finances.

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Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

GeriPal

social worker, chaplain), everyone should be able to ask a question or two about spiritual concerns, social concerns, or physical concerns. In 2018, survey data revealed that only 41% of survey adult practices had the full complement of funded core team members, which is up from 25% of 2016. But how about you!

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

My special guest podcaster, Emily Groopman, is an actual Pediatric Geneticist in training and we hope that you will find this episode useful. 2016 Jan;37(1):3-15; quiz 16-7, 47. So my special guest host on this episode is a trainee in pediatrics and medical genetics. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Pediatr Rev. doi: 10.1542/pir.2014-0122.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. ” I think we started the blog in 2007 or 2008, we were doing that up until 2016. And, then around 2016 we were like, “We kind of need a new challenge, and that’s podcasting now.” Alex: Okay. ” Love it.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

Tom: So we did this study because patients who go through the stem cell transplant process face a lot of misery in terms of physical symptoms, psychological distress, anxiety, depression, and even a risk of PTSD afterwards, sort of like a medical trauma, you might think of it. Eric: And that’s similar to the 2016 JAMA paper, right?