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Green Practice News: April 2025

My Green Doctor

Todd Sack concludes that, “ the medical office waiting room appears to be an accepted, time-efficient, and effective site to communicate knowledge on climate change and health. ” from 2000 to 2018 among people over 65 years old. The healthcare sector contributes 8.5% Contact us today! of total U.S.

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Episode 262: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 18 – Remedying Health Inequities Driven by the Carceral System

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Incarceration negatively affects the physical and mental health of people who are incarcerated as well as their family members and loved ones, and limits access to healthcare before, during, and after incarceration. All healthcare professionals will have patients who are directly or indirectly impacted by the carceral system.

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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

Our last podcast was with Laura Petrillo in 2018 – 5 years ago seems ancient history – though many of the points still apply today (e.g. So learning more about how to inform providers on how to make decisions about de-prescribing based on prognosis, based on diabetes type, based on their oral intake and their goals.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. And yet, after assisting the older adult to their feet, the EMS providers would leave. So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program.

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Leveraging U=U Interventions for Black Women With HIV

Physician's Weekly

The systematic review of peer-reviewed intervention was published from 2018 to 2023. The researchers recommended including community members in intervention design, healthcare systems, and policies. Community-based organizations led by Black women may be even more impactful. PW: Why was it important to do this study?

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Medical use and misuse of psychoactive prescription medications among US youth and young adults: An Introduction

BMJ

Two out of three drug overdose deaths in 2018 involved an opioid – be it prescription opioids, heroin, or synthetic opioids. 6 As a result of these and many other actions, the death toll from opioid overdose fell by more than 4% between 2017 and 2018. 2 Opioids contribute a large share of this overdose crisis.

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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

GeriPal

Eloise 10:29 Yeah, I think what we saw in California was, prior to legalization, there was curiosity, but also a lot of their healthcare professionals didn’t know enough about it, so they didn’t discuss it with them. For instance, Friday night, Saturday night parties are of community wide. Alex 12:33 Sure, sure.

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