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Episode 275: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 19 – Reframing the Opioid Epidemic: Anti-Racist Praxis, Racial Health Inequities, and Harm Reduction

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Screening for substance use and offering connections to treatment and community-based services are important strategies that clinicians can implement in their own practice today. One example that is presented involves the complicated relationship between the United States and Chinese immigrants and farmworkers in California.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

William: So ASCO decided to make a high priority this year to redo the guidelines, which were originally released in 2018. So falls, mobility concerns, polypharmacy, comorbidities, nutrition, social support, and mental health. Is there a screen to get comprehensive? And Mazie mentioned a few earlier.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? So I’m just going to share on my screen. We see how hard it is.

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