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Physician's Weekly
JUNE 19, 2025
Patients with documented mental illness or substance use disorders (SUDs) continue to encounter a mixed—sometimes starkly divergent—quality of emergency department (ED) care when they present with chest pain, abdominal pain, or other non‑psychiatric complaints, according to a patient‑interview study published in Health Services Research.
Common Sense Family Doctor
DECEMBER 14, 2024
Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Explaining the AAFP’s position, Drs. Watchful waiting refers to clinical observation only.
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The Clinical Problem Solvers
JANUARY 18, 2021
Understand that collective action and a focus on community, rather than individualism, are most effective in combating racism and achieving health equity. One of the biggest barriers to health equity is the narrow focus on the individual and a failure to see health as a widespread community issue.
The Clinical Problem Solvers
AUGUST 25, 2020
Policing and health outcomes Evidence has shown that excessive policing not only impacts the individual health of Black and brown people who’ve interacted with the police, but it also impacts the health of their communities at large.
GeriPal
MAY 19, 2022
Summary Transcript Summary. A patient is on morphine and you want to convert it to another opioid like hydromorphone (dilaudid). How do you do that? Do you do what I do, pull out a handy-dandy opioid equianalgesic table to give you a guide on how much to convert to? . which advocates for an updated, wait for it… equianalgesic table! . Drew: Yeah.
GeriPal
JUNE 8, 2023
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. Should we use Ozempic (if we can find it) in patients with serious illness, which often results in undesirable and profound weight loss? Goldilocks zone). Listen in to learn more!
Physician's Weekly
JUNE 12, 2025
As climate change increases in certain pediatric illnesses like asthma, pediatricians have a role in caring for children, especially in vulnerable communities. In that study , researchers analyzed data from over one million participants from 0 to 19 years of age after torrential rains, floods, and landslides occurred in 2018.
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