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A Side-by-Side Look: COVID-19 Vaccines vs. Super Mario Invincibility Star

GomerBlog

TARGET POPULATION: Not medical students. Starmen must be used before it exits the screen. There have been many questions asking how these two vaccines stack up against one another , but a huge question remains largely unanswered: how do they both stack up against the Invincibility Stars or Starmen from Super Mario Bros. ?

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

And I think of the analogy of, like, cancer screening. The stopping the cancer screening doesn’t have that same sort of momentum. But I had a terrific MSTAR medical student working with me this past summer who was looking to see whether there were the type of medication, like the half life or was a Z versus a benzo.

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Away from war but no peace for Ukraine-returned Indian students

Tiny Physician

Indian medical students, who were pursuing their studies in Ukraine, were the most affected Indians in this whole matter. This article aims to address their plight and we have taken input from Malavika (name changed for privacy) who is a student at a Ukrainian medical university.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

It is a screening? And so then it would be nice to have those other than the chaplains, be aware of the spiritual component and then just ask some basic screening questions. And the screening questions would just allow you to know that. Who does the assessments, who does screening? I guess FICA is not as cool as SKY.

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

GeriPal

– @AlexSmithMD Here’s a link to an article about the Palliative Story Exchange. ** This podcast is not CME eligible. One of my favorite quotes that we used in our article is one by Toni Morrison where she talks about, you know, narrative creates us at the moment that we’re. That we’re creating it.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

Because I remember there was an article maybe six months ago in JAGS, maybe it was longer than that, everybody was talking about ChatGPT-3.5, And our point, in this article, is that it’s an inherently unsafe system because humans suck at that. ” And one of the students raised his hand. Let me ask you a question.

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