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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

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Ongoing reports from patients about anti-Asian hate experiences Should clinicians screen for Anti-Asian hate? question used to screen for domestic violence. See also guides for how to confront and discuss anti-Asian hate in these articles in the NEJM and JGIM. So the reasons for not screening are time constraint.

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Redefining Alzheimer’s Disease: A Podcast with Heather Whitson, Jason Karlawish, Lon Schneider

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This is directly from their article draft, which we’ll have on our website: Beta-amyloidosis, having amyloid in your brain or in high levels in your plasma defines the initially detectable stage of Alzheimer’s disease. Lon: No, that’s a straight out screen. Specifically their position is beta-amyloidosis.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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In terms of their risk, in terms of how we think of preventive health, as we think of screening, all of those things, I would turn around to the geriatricians and say, “Check your implicit bias. Maybe vaccines, maybe. HPV vaccine. We’ll have all of the articles we talked about on our show notes. Margot: Right.

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

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Darrell: And so I’d set up in conjunction with our emergency room team and our hospitalist, a 24/7 screening process for, at the time, anybody who’s over 65. Darrell: Then I had another one that was much later in the process that was actually vaccinated, who was over 90, who had a lot of medical issues.

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

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We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . Their vaccines aren’t as effective.