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Episode 74: On COVID-19 – A case-based discussion with Drs. Block, Thakur, and Chin-Hong

The Clinical Problem Solvers

He has been involved in the COVID19 clinical consultation and treatment team. Her main research interests are in understanding how the social environment contributes to disease and modifies disease course in low-income communities and communities of color. He has interests in medical ethics and critical illness communication.

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Green Practice News: April 2025

My Green Doctor

It tells your office colleagues and patients that your healthcare practice or clinic is committed to forging a healthier work space and community. Relate sustainability topics to chronic disease prevention—air pollution and asthma, heat exposure and cardiovascular risks, food systems and metabolic health.

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With an eye on climate, a helping hand for health care's front lines

Medical Xpress

An elderly woman struggles into a community health clinic in rural Texas amid a record-breaking heat wave. She's having a severe asthma attack, wheezing and gasping for air. As medical staff rush over the lights and air conditioning shut down due to an overtaxed power grid.

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You don’t need X-Rays in a child with bronchiolitis, croup, asthma, or first time wheezing

PEMBlog

Many of the children you will evaluate during your shift are among the estimated 10 million United States (US) ED visits made by children with asthma, bronchiolitis, and croup, the most common pediatric respiratory conditions presenting to acute care settings.

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Green Practice News: May 2025

My Green Doctor

In This Issue : Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Medical Waste: One Model for Improvement OnTrack with your Sustainability Goals? Powering Health, Protecting the Planet – Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Healthcare professionals have always been trusted voices on public health.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

When I started over 20 years ago, saw babies being born, used to do circumcisions in clinics, and then taking care of patients as they got more mature in their life, so to speak, and really loved that. In Kaiser Permanente here, we exist to provide high-quality, affordable health care for our patients in the communities we serve.

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #2: Flight of Passage

PEMBlog

Most patients are afebrile by the third day of treatment and clinically improved within two weeks. Resolution of symptoms in patients with community-acquired pneumonia treated on an ambulatory basis. Time course of symptom resolution in patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Marrie TJ, Beecroft MD, Herman-Gnjidic Z.