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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

billion people were living with vision loss in 2020, and it is forecasted to reach 1.7 The 80-year-old Ray Flynn lost his central vision entirely, but with the help of the retinal implant, he could make out shapes on the computer screen. Originally, the companies promised to put the digital contact lens on the market around 2020.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. And really learning from them about what kinds of things healthcare might provide, that might be of help to them. David: Exactly.

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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

There is a special emphasis on the use of public health models that prioritize harm reduction and person-centered care to prevent drug-related fatalities and curb the opioid epidemic along lines of race and class. Epub 2020 Dec 3. Demographic data in research and practice must always be disaggregated by race and ethnicity. DeBonis, K.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 2023.11.004.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. So we all went through a pandemic. I guess that’s an event.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

So has a special resonance for, I think, a lot of people who are Tragically H ip fans. There’s obviously a lot of flaws in the healthcare system. That was January 2020. We had, you know, it was a Monday night in June of 2020. It was my first concert without my parents. We’ve got to do that. But that was.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

Big heat waves in England in 2020, 2,224 excess deaths in the obits over the age of 65. I actually wonder though, since we’re on a GeriPal broadcast, I think that people are under emphasizing the special risk of older people. So the things that Karl mentioned, but also access to healthcare during a disaster or even heat.